Royal Frost discovered IC 5322 = F. 1235, along with IC 5320, on a plate taken on 12 Oct 1903 at Harvard's Arequipa station in Peru. He noted "bM, magn 14." See IC 5320.

600/800mm - 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly faint, fairly small, round, 20"-24" diameter. Forms a close pair with similar IC 5320 0.9' W. In a quartet with brighter IC 5324 3.8' SSW and IC 5323 6.1' SW. A mag 11.5 star lies 2' NE and a mag 12 star is 3' E.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb