George Johnstone Stoney, Lord Rosse's assistant, discovered NGC 2826 on 13 Mar 1850. On a diagram of 12 nebulae in the cluster constructed the following year, NGC 2826 is shown 9' southwest of Alpha (later NGC 2832). Heinrich d'Arrest independently discovered the galaxy on 30 Apr 1862 (#89 in AN 1500) and measured an accurate position (given in the NGC), though he acknowledged it was probably one of LdR's. Joihn Herschel listed separate entries in the GC (1807 and 1809) for LdR and d'Arrest, assuming they might be different objects, but Dreyer combined them in the NGC.

300/350mm - 13.1" (1/28/84): faint, fairly small, very diffuse. Located 9' SW of NGC 2832 in AGC 779.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/31/87): second brightest in the core of AGC 779 rich cluster. Fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated NW-SE, brighter core. Located 8.9' SW of NGC 2832.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb