Ormond Stone discovered NGC 1202 = LM 2-354 in 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory and recorded "mag 15.5, 0.3' dia, wide double star, position 45? (NE) at 4' distance. His position is ~30 tsec of RA east of PGC 11593, but his description of the double star is a perfect match. Bigourdan's position for IC 286, which he claimed to have found while searching for this galaxy, is very close to NGC 1202 and Corwin notes that his offset stars don't match the field. So, IC 286 is lost unless his offset stars can be recovered.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/12/02): very faint, small, round, 25" diameter, low even surface brightness. A pair of mag 14/15 star (32" separation) lie 1' SE. Located 4' SW of a 20" pair of mag 10.5/11.5 stars and 4.8' SSW of a mag 10.3 star.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb