?douard Stephan discovered NGC 1101 = St VIIIb-9 on 22 Nov 1876 with the 31" reflector at Marseille Observatory, recording "eF, eeS, R, bM, *13 preceding". His position and description is accurate.

400/500mm - 17.5" (12/28/94): fairly faint, small, elongated 2:1 E-W, 0.8'x0.4', very small bright core. Forms a "double" with a mag 13 star at the west end 24" from the center. Starting about 4' SW is a very shallow arc of five mag 12-13 stars open to the NW with two 30" pairs at the SW and east ends of the arc and a total length of 4.5'. Forms a pair with NGC 1095 10' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb