ESO 471-049 is a brighter spiral situated 14' ESE. It was fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 ~N-S, 0.8'x0.4', slightly brighter nucleus. Three mag 12.5-13.8 stars are close west. Mag 9.4 HD 224284 lies 9' WSW.

Lewis Swift discovered IC 5364 = Sw. XI-242 on 15 Sep 1896 and called it "vF; pS; R; 8m * near sf." His position is 4.5' SE of ESO 471-IG47, though a mag 9.4 star is 5.5' SSE of this galaxy, in agreement with Swift's description. Apparently he missed ESO 471-049, which is larger and brighter.

600/800mm - 24" (9/7/18): IC 5364 is an interacting overlapping pair, only 17" between centers. The eastern galaxy IC 5364 NED2) was brighter. At 260x it appeared faint, small, round, 20" diameter. The western galaxy IC 5364 NED1) is tangent but resolved as a very faint, round glow, 12" diameter (the nucleus of a Ring galaxy).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb