George Johnstone Stoney, Lord Rosse's assistant, discovered NGC 2834 on 13 Mar 1850 (one of "15 knots in all.") On a sketch made in March 1851 NGC 2834 is labeled Epsilon and measured 4.2' southeast (PA = 125°) of NGC 2832. The NGC position is 4 sec of RA too large. Hermann Kobold measured a very accurate position in 1897 at the Strasbourg Observatory (published in his 1907 catalog).

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/31/87): extremely faint and small, round. Located 4.1' SE of NGC 2832 in the core of AGC 779. A double star h2493 = 10.1/11.7 is 2.3' W and a mag 11 star is 1.4' N. NGC 2839 lies 8' ESE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb