DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 5323 = DS 782, along with IC 5324, on a plate taken on 29 Aug 1900 at Harvard's Arequipa station in Peru. He noted it as "F, S, bM."

600/800mm - 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; bright, moderately large, irregularly round, 45"x35", strongly concentrated with a very bright core that gradually increases but no well defined nuclear zone. Collinear with a mag 12.4 star 2.1' SSE and a mag 11.5 star 4.2' SSE. Two additional mag 12-13 stars are further east. Brightest in a quartet with IC 5324 3.9' E, IC 5320 5.4' NE and IC 5322 6.1' NE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb