Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 3030 = LM 2-417 in 1886 and recorded "mag 15.7, 0.2' dia, R, gbsbMN." His position is only 10 sec of RA east and 1' south of MCG -02-25-021 = PGC 28302. Herbert Howe's corrected position made with the 20" refractor at the Chamberlin Observatory (published in Monthly Notices 1899) is accurate.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/15/93): faint, small, round, broad concentration. A mag 12 star is 1' NNW. Located 2.5' NNW of mag 8.5 SAO 155521.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb