Lewis Swift found IC 611 = Sw. VIII-54 on 22 Apr 1889 and reported "eF; S; lE." His position is less than 2' NW of IC 610, discovered two night earlier by Swift! See IC 610.

600/800mm - 24" (4/13/18): at 200x and 375x; moderately faint, very nice edge-on, fairly large, pretty uniform in thickness and brightness, ~1.6'x0.25', just a very slight central brightening and bulge. A wide pair of mag 10/11 stars at 1.1' separation is 5' N. IC 610 is located 4.8' SE of mag 9.1 HD 90360 (a double star is 1' to its south) and 48' NE of the NGC 3226/3227 pair (Arp 94).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb