William Herschel discovered NGC 2977 = H I-282 on 2 Apr 1801 (sweep 1096) and logged "cB, pL, iF." This is one of 15 far northern galaxies with large systematic errors. This is one of 15 far northern galaxies with large systematic errors. A corrected position matching UGC 5175 was published in 1911 using plates taken at the Greenwich Observatory with the 30-inch reflector. Dreyer repeated this position in the notes to his 1912 edition of WH's catalogues. MCG does not label MCG +13-07-035 as NGC 2977. See NGC 2938 for more on sweep 1096 or Harold Corwin's full story in his notes for NGC 3752.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/28/89): moderately bright, fairly small, oval NW-SE, large bright core.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb