Lewis Swift discovered NGC 1614 = Sw. III-30 on 29 Dec 1885 with his 16" refractor. His RA was 21 seconds too large. Herbert Howe measured an accurate position in 1898 using the 20" refractor at Chamberlin Observatory (repeated in the IC 2 notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/29/94): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 SSW-NNE, 0.8'x0.6', broad concentration. A mag 13 star is 2.0' S of center.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb