Albert Marth discovered NGC 2934 = m 174 on 2 Apr 1865 with Lassell's 48" on Malta and only noted "eF". Dreyer added "nf of 2 [with m173 = NGC 2933], but NGC 2933 was discovered a year earlier. His position is 3 tsec of RA east and 2' N of NGC 2933. An extremely faint edge-on is at the NE tip of NGC 2933 and UGC misidentifies this galaxy as NGC 2934. Assuming Marth went back to verify the group in 1865 and picked a nebula near NGC 2933, the most likely candidate is PGC 1523531, situated 2.4' due north of NGC 2933. Karl Reinmuth misidentifies NGC 2934 with a faint star 0.8' east: "neb*14, vS, R; eeeF neb or * p 0.8' [this refers to NGC 2934], *12.5 nnf 1.2', 2 cF S neb np 7.2' and nnp 3.8'." This was the last nebula that Marth discovered on Malta and one of the faintest!

600/800mm - 24" (2/22/14): at 375x appeared extremely to very faint, extremely small, round, just 6" diameter. It took some effort to initially identify and is comparable to a mag 15.9 star just 0.8' E. Situated 2.4' N of NGC 2933. This is the faintest of 7 NGC galaxies in the NGC 2943 group (WBL 229).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb