Lewis Swift discovered NGC 1819 = Sw. III-35 on 26 Dec 1885 with the 16" refractor at the Warner Observatory. His position is 10 tsec west of UGC 3265 = PGC 16899. Bigourdan measured an accurate position on 6 Dec 1888 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes section).

300/350mm - 13.1" (11/29/86): faint, very small, bright core, elongated NW-SE. Located 12.5' S of mag 8 SAO 112508.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb