James Dunlop discovered IC 5250 = D 255 = D.S. 768 on 5 Sep 1826 with his homemade 9-inch f/12 speculum reflector. He described a "small faint elliptical nebula in the parallel of the equator, about 25" long and 12" or 15" broad." His position is just 3' following this interacting pair of galaxies (similar in appearance to the Antennae). DeLisle Stewart found the galaxy on plates taken 21 Aug 1900 at Harvard's Arequipa station in Peru, published a fairly accurate position and described "cB, S, R, F * f 0.5'." Stewart is credited with the discovery in the IC.

600/800mm - 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; excellent merged pair within a common halo! Both galaxies are bright, fairly small, high surface brightness, and both contain very bright nonstellar nuclei. The merged system is elongated E-W with the brighter galaxy (IC 5250B) on the east side. The common halo extends perhaps 1.5'x0.75'. (IC 5250B is slightly elongated NW-SE and a mag 13.5 star is superimposed on the southeast edge. A mag 13.2 star is 1.2' SE. The center of(IC 5250A is just 30" to the west and not quite as bright as(IC 5250A. Each component is roughly 0.6' in size. (IC 5250 is the brightest in a group that includes NGC 7358 12' SW, superthin IC 5249 14' N, IC 5246 10.5' NNW and IC 5247 13' SSW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb