Wilhelm Tempel discovered NGC 1560 = T IX-1 on 1 Aug 1883 with an 11" refractor at the Arcetri Observatory. His position is 1 min of RA preceding UGC 3060 = PGC 15488, though at this high declination this amounts to 5'. UGC 3060 is misidentified as IC 2062 in RC2, UGC and CGCG. According to Harold Corwin, IC 2062 is a faint star found by Guillaume Bigourdan on the same night he observed NGC 1560.

200/250mm - 8" (1/1/84): very faint, fairly large, edge-on SSW-NNE, low even surface brightness. Appears as a ghostly streak.

400/500mm - 17.5" (2/20/95): fairly faint, very large, 6'x1', low surface brightness edge-on SSW-NNE. Broad weak concentration with no distinct core but there a central 2' brightening. A mag 13 star is embedded on the preceding side of the NNE extension. The galaxy appears to extend very faintly beyond this towards a mag 12 star further north. Another mag 13 star is superimposed at the SSW end and a brighter mag 11.5 star is just following the tip of this extension. Member of the IC 342/Maffei I group, a nearby but obscured group of galaxies.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb