DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 5247 = DS 766 on a plate taken on 21 Aug 1900 at Harvard's Arequipa station in Peru. He noted it as "vF, vS, vE at 125°, mbM."

600/800mm - 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly faint to moderately bright, moderately large, very elongated 4:1 NW-SE, 0.8'x0.2', broad weak concentration. A mag 14.5 star is 40" NE. Picked up 12' SE of NGC 7358 and 13' SSW of IC 5250, a prominent double system. Several other IC galaxies are in this group.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb