E.E. Barnard and Sherburne Burnham discovered IC 926 in a group around June 1892 with the 36" Lick refractor. Harold Corwin and Wolfgang Steinicke identify IC 926 with 2MASX J13433923+5537534, situated 1.4' SE of Barnard's position. There are a number of other nearby galaxies, but they are further east and assuming Barnard's RA order is correct, this identification is very reasonable, though not certain. In fact this galaxy is only 45" NW of Barnard's position for IC 928, and Francis Pease labeled it IC 928 in his 1920 nebulae observations based on 60" plates at Mt. Wilson. See IC 917 for more.

900/1200mm - 48" (5 /9/18): faint, small, round, ~8" diameter. Situated in a clump of 7 galaxies in the core of AGC 1783 with LEDA 2509027 (= IC 929?) 50" E. A mag 13.5 star is 0.5' NE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb