Lewis Swift discovered IC 5168 = Sw. XI-211 on 31 Aug 1897 and reported in his 11th discovery list, "eeF; vS; vE; [right] ∆ with 2 F st." In his earlier third discovery list from Lowe, he also noted the 2 faint stars were near south-following. His position falls near the southeast tip of ESO 467-011, a faint edge-on, which all sources (ESO, MCG, PGC, NED, HyperLEDA, SIMBAD) take as IC 5168 based on the very good positional match. But there aren't two faint stars close southeast matching his description or in any other direction that he likely would have seen. Instead, in Aug 2019 I proposed to Harold Corwin that ESO 465-015 = HCG 91B, about 10' NE of Swift's position, was a better candidate. This galaxy is a brighter edge-on with two mag 14.5 stars less than 2' NE and SE forming an equilateral triangle. He agrees with this identification.

ESO 467-011 was found on a plate taken between 1914-1916 with the 30" Reynolds reflector at the Helwan Observatory. It was reported as #242 in a list of 256 new nebulae published in 1921 and described as "pF, 1' long, spindle, mE 170°, lbM."

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/13/90): extremely faint, small, edge-on NNW-SSE, can just hold steadily with averted. Located 5.1' NNE of NGC 7214 in HCG 91.

600/800mm - 24" (8/1/19): at 260x; faint, moderately large, extremely thin edge-on, nearly 10:1 NNW-SSE, ~0.9'x0.1', can hold steadily with averted. Forms an equilateral triangle with two mag 14.5/14.8 stars 1.7' NE and ESE. Located 5' NNE of NGC 7214 and faintest in the HCG 91 quartet. Modern catalogues identify ESO 467-011 as IC 5168.

ESO 467-011, located 5.6' SW of NGC 7214, was a threshold object and popped a couple of times at 220x as a thin edge-on, ~5:1 NW-SE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb