John Herschel discovered NGC 2724 = h544 on 7 Feb 1832 (sweep 401) and noted "eF; S; R." There is nothing at his position, but John noted an uncertain RA and 0.9 minutes of time west is UGC 4726. Because of this discrepancy, UGC, CGCG and MCG do not label their respective entries as NGC 2724, but RNGC and RC3 both label UGC 4726 as NGC 2724. Harold Corwin mentions NGC 2719 (further west) as another possibility, but this is further out in RA and is quite elongated.

400/500mm - 17.5" (3/20/93): very faint, moderately large, round, low even surface brightness. Located 2.8' NE of a mag 10 star which detracts from viewing. At the edge of the 220x field is mag 7.7 SAO 61205 10' NE. In a trio with NGC 2719 and NGC 2719A 10' WSW. This galaxy is not identified as NGC 2724 in the UGC, CGCG or MCG.

600/800mm - 24" (2/24/20): at 260x; between faint and fairly faint, relatively large oval, ~1.0'x0.7' N-S, low nearly even surface brightness with a slightly brighter nucleus. NGC 2719 pair (Arp 202) is 10' WSW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb