Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 1189 = LM 1-90 (along with nearby NGC 1188, 1190, 1191 and 1192) on 2 Dec 1885 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory. Although Leavenworth only gave a rough RA for these objects (corrected by 3 min of RA in a note in the second discovery list), Howe measured relatively accurate individual RA's in 1899-00, which are repeated in the IC 2 Notes section. This is the first of 5 NGC galaxies in HCG 22.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/13/90): extremely faint, fairly small, unusually low even surface brightness. First in the HCG 22 quintet with brightest member NGC 1199 4' ENE. NGC 1189 lies 2.3' SSE. NGC 1189 is also a member of the larger NGC 1209 Group at z ~.009.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb