NGC 2788A, located 40' SW, appeared moderately bright and large, thin edge-on at least 4:1 SW-NE, 1.4'x0.3'. A mag 13.9 star is close south of the northeast end. Situated in a very rich star field with two mag 10.6 and 11.7 stars at 0.7' separation 2.5' SW. The brighter star has a 14th mag companion and is nearly collinear with the major axis. The galaxy was found 29' NNE of mag 5.9 HD 77887.

NGC 2788B, located 16' NNE of NGC 2788A, appeared extremely faint, small, roundish, 18" diameter, required averted vision. A mag 10.8 star is 1.2' NE. Located in a rich star field 30' W of NGC 2788.

John Herschel discovered NGC 2788 = h3150 on 29 Jan 1835 and recorded "vF; vS; mE in pos 105°." His position is 30 sec west of ESO 061-002 but the description matches perfectly.

600/800mm - 24" (4/11/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): excellent fairly bright edge-on, fairly large, elongated 4:1 WNW-ESE, 1.4'x0.35', very weak cocnentration. A faint star is just off the south side, 19" from the center. I had the impression there was a sharper light cut-off on the south side, but was not convinced.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb