William Parsons (Lord Rosse) and assistant R.J. Mitchell discovered NGC 1131 and 1130 during the 8 Dec 1855 observation of the NGC 1129 field. They recorded, "another about 2' following and a little south of h271 NGC 1129]". CGCG 540-004 = PGC 10964 lies 1.7' SE of NGC 1129 and is the best candidate. Harold Corwin notes that CGCG 540-008, a brighter galaxy, lies 4.5' SE of NGC 1129, but that would require a very poor estimate of the separation. MCG (+07-07-005) does not label PGC 10964 as NGC 1131. See Corwin's notes for NGC 1130.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/24/87): very faint, very small, round, bright core. Third of three with much brighter NGC 1129 1.7' NW and NGC 1130 3.5' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb