Lewis Swift discovered IC 5321 = Sw. XI-229 on 13 Sep 1896 and recorded "eF; vS; R; F * close nf." There is nothing at his position in his large 11th list, but the declination was stated as 1° further north in his first Lowe Observatory discovery list in Astronomical Journal Vol. 17 (1896). Also the "F * close nf" is actually northwest, again as originally published. These errors were caught by Herbert Howe while reobserving NGC/IC objects in 1899 at the Chamberlin Observatory in Denver. Howe recovered Swift's object 6' north of the position given in his AJ list and estimated the nearby star to the NW as 10th mag, although it is closer to 13th mag.

600/800mm - 24" (9/23/17): at 220x and 375x; fairly faint, small, round, 25" diameter. Well defined halo (core?) with very little concentration. A 13th magnitude star is 1' NW. A collinear trio (included the wide double HJ 3194) lies 15' SE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb