Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 106 = LM 1-4 in 1886 with the 26" refractor at the Leander McCormick Observatory. His rough position in list I is 1.0 tmin E of PGC 1551. N.M. Parrish corrected the RA with a micrometric offset in "Southern Nebulae" and Dreyer repeated this correction in the IC 1 notes.

400/500mm - 17.5" (9/17/88): faint, small, slightly elongated ~E-W, small bright core, faint stellar nucleus.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb