George Phillips Bond, director of Harvard College Observatory, discovered NGC 219 = HN 1 on 16 Sep 1863 at Harvard College observatory with the 15-inch Merz & Mahler refractor. His position and description matches MCG +00-02-128. This is one of the few galaxies "discovered" by Bond that are not single or multiple stars.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/8/88): very faint, extremely small, slightly elongated. A mag 12 star is 1.1' SSW of center. Located 3.7' NNW of NGC 223.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb