Albert Marth discovered NGC 1168 = m 85 on 1 Oct 1864 with Lassell's 48" on Malta and simply noted "eF". His position is accurate.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/9/99): extremely faint, very small, round, 20" diameter. Probably only viewed the core (the arms are very low surface brightness on the digitized sky survey). Located midway between NGC 1166 5.2' NW and mag 9 SAO 93236 to the SE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb