?douard Stephan discovered NGC 1010 = St VIIIb-6, along with NGC 1011, on 21 Nov 1876 with the 31" reflector at the Marseille Observatory. His position matches PGC 9949. Swift independently found the pair on 29 Sep 1886 and his position for Sw. V-30 is just 10 sec of RA too far west. Frank Muller noted the equivalence with Stephan's nebula in an 1887 article on Swift's duplicate catalogue entries (acknowledged by Swift in the errata to his 6th list). Nevertheless Dreyer assigned Sw. V-30 to NGC 1006, so this galaxy carries two NGC designations

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/8/94): faint, fairly small, round, no concentration. A mag 13 star is 3.7' NW. First in and brightest of a trio with NGC 1011 1.5' NE and NGC 1017 3.8' ENE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb