CGCG 427-040, just 2.7' ENE, appeared extremely to very faint, small, round, 20" diameter, low even surface brightness. CGCG 427-040 is misidentified as IC 5144 in MCG, PGC and HyperLeda. UGC 11845 lies 4.6' ESE. This difficult edge-on (B = 16.1) appeared extremely faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NW-SE, ~20"x10", very low surface brightness! A mag 13 star lies 1.3' SE.

E.E. Barnard discovered IC 5144, along with IC 5145, on 30 Jul 1888 and described in his notebook, "1 outer radius + 1 thickness [of Ring micrometer] = 7' 17" south and 17 seconds +/- preceding this nebula IC 5145] is a small faint neb close preceding several small stars." Dreyer was notified privately of both of these discoveries. Very close to Barnard's offset from IC 5145 is the brightest galaxy of 4 within 3', which matches his description. MCG, PGC, and HyperLeda (as of late 2015) misidentify CGCG 427-040 as IC 5144 (though has an uncertain symbol). See Harold Corwin's notes for more.

600/800mm - 24" (8/12/15): at 375x; faint, small, round, 18" diameter. A mag 15 star is just 24" SE of center. Easily picked up, though not plotted as a "star" on the Megastar chart.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb