Lewis Swift discovered NGC 1627 = Sw. VI-19 (along with NGC 1628) on 22 Dec 1886 with the 16" refractor at Warner Observatory. His position is just 1' too far N. RNGC reverses the photographic descriptions for NGC 1627 and NGC 1628. See my RNGC Corrections #1 and WSQJ 4/80.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/23/93): faint, fairly small, 1.5'-2' diameter, low even surface brightness. A mag 11 star is 2.7' SSW. NGC 1628 lies 10' N and NGC 1621 20' WSW. The photographic descriptions of NGC 1627 and NGC 1628 are reversed in the RNGC.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb