Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 1372 = LM 1-108 on 12 Nov 1885 with the 26" refractor at the Leander McCormick Observatory. His rough position (nearest min of RA) is 0.9 tmin west of PGC 13346. The RA was corrected based on Harvard plates taken in South Africa in Robert Baker's 1937 "Catalogue of 1113 Galaxies in a Region in Fornax and Eridanus".

400/500mm - 18" (11/23/05): very faint, extremely small, round, 15"-20" diameter. A mag 14.5 star lies 1' SW. NGC 1388 lies 17' E and NGC 1368 32' WNW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb