Lewis Swift discovered IC 5262 = Sw. XII-42 on 22 Aug 1897 and logged "eeeF, pS, R, bet a * p and a wide D nf, 8m * f, ee dif, np of 2." Although Swift calls this off the "north-preceding of 2" there is no listing in his table to the southeast of IC 5262 and Corwin suggests Swift may be referring to IC 5271, which is northeast.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/6/97): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 N-S, 0.9'x0.7'. A mag 12 star lies 1.4' N and a mag 11 star 1.9' NE. This is a double system with PGC 70010 but the southeast component was not seen. Also MCG -06-50-011 2' S was not seen.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb