Guillaume Bigourdan discovered IC 5195 = Big. 449 on 16 Oct 1895. Bigourdan placed this object "toward PA = 45 deg [northeast], d = 0.5' with respect to NGC 7242". Dreyer mistakenly copied this into the IC description as "0.5' s[outh] of 7242". This is a remarkably faint galaxy to be discovered with a 12-inch scope. Malcolm Thomson notes that he could not decide if this object was nonstellar on the POSS. See Corwin's notes.

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/15/93): appears as a mag 16 "star" superimposed at the northeast edge of NGC 7242. Visible with averted vision less than one-quarter of the time. I could not clearly distinguish if this object appeared nonstellar. Dreyer's IC description "0.5' S of 7242" is incorrect.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb