Lewis Swift discovered NGC 262 = Sw. II-10 on 17 Sep 1885 with the 16" refractor at Warner Observatory. His position is 15 sec of RA east of UGC 499. Bigourdan's measured an accurate RA on 13 Oct 1890 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (11/25/87): faint, small, round, bright core. Contains a faint stellar nucleus about 15th magnitude.

600/800mm - 24" (11/24/14): moderately bright, small, round, dominated by a high surface brightness core that increases to the center, very low surface brightness halo, ~25" diameter. Forms a pair with 2MASX J00485285+3157309 = PGC 212600 just 1.2' E. The companion appeared very faint, round, just 10" diameter. It was too faint (V = 15.4) for any details.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb