?douard Stephan discovered NGC 1599 = St XII-29 on 14 Dec 1881 with the 31" reflector at the Marseille Observatory. His position is an exact match with MCG -01-12-016 = PGC 15403. NGC 1610 may be a duplicate observation (see notes) and the first edition of the Uranometria 2000.0 labels the galaxy NGC 1599 = NGC 1610.

400/500mm - 17.5" (2/1/92): faint, very small, round, slight central brightening. Located just 1.1' W of mag 9.1 SAO 131769. Member of the NGC 1600 group with NGC 1607 10' NE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb