Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 1190 = LM 1-91 (along with nearby NGC 1188, 1189, 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), Herbert Howe measured relatively accurate individual RA's in 1899-00, which are repeated in the IC 2 Notes section. This is the second of five NGC galaxies in HCG 22.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/13/90): extremely faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 E-W, very low surface brightness, requires averted vision. Member of the HCG 22 quintet with NGC 1199 4' NE, NGC 1189 2.3' NNW, NGC 1191 1.8' SE and NGC 1192 3' ESE. The two latter galaxies lie in the background but the others are members of the larger NGC 1209 group that also includes NGCs 1145, 1163, 1188 and IC 276.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb