Truman Safford discovered IC 777 = Sf 18 on 14 May 1866 with the 18.5" refractor at the Dearborn Observatory and simply noted "vF". His RA is 9 seconds too large.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/9/99): faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 NNW-SSE, 0.9'x0.4', little if any concentration. The compact cluster Shkh 202 is ~8' NE! (six faint members close to a mag 6.7 located 11' NE viewed).

17.5" (5/23/98): faint, small, round, 30" diameter. Picked up 9' N of 9 Com (V = 6.3). At 280x, elongated 3:2 NNW-SSE, PA ~160°, 0.8'x0.5', very weak concentration. Located 18' NE of NGC 4251.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb