Royal H. Frost discovered IC 5063 = F. 1214 on a plate taken at Harvard's Arequipa station on 17 May 1904. He noted "bM, magn 13."

600/800mm - 30" (10/18/17 - OzSky): at 264x; bright, large, slightly elongated NW-SE, ~1.5'x1.1'. Sharply concentrated with a relatively large, very bright core. More abrupt light cutoff on the north side [probably due to its dust lane]. A mag 11.3 star is 3.3' N. Forms a pair with IC 5064 11' SSE. IC 5063 is a well studied Seyfert 2 galaxy and an infrared, X-ray, Radio and Gamma-ray source.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb