George Johnstone Stoney, Lord Rosse's assistant, discovered NGC 1057 sometime in Dec 1849. The sketch and description ("vF double neb") clearly applies to UGC 2184, although the "double" appearance is due to a very close, faint double star at the NW edge.

400/500mm - 18" (1/26/11): very faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 0.7'x0.45', low even surface brightness. Located 4.7' NW of NGC 1060 in a group with NGC 1061 3' SE. NGC 1066 and NGC 1067 lies 10' E.

600/800mm - 24" (9/23/17): at 260x; fairly faint, moderately large, oval 3:2 NW-SE, 1.2'x0.8'. Contains a brighter core that seems to extend into a very low contrast bar. First in the NGC 1060 group (5 NGC galaxies).

24" (2/7/16): fairly faint, moderately large, elongated 2:1 WNW-ESE, 0.7'x0.35', small brighter core. The major axis points to NGC 1061 3.1' SE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb