William Herschel discovered NGC 3182 = H I-265 on 8 Apr 1793 (sweep 1038) and noted "cB, S, vgmbM, iR." CH's reduction matches UGC 5568. The NGC position (copied correctly from the GC) is 19 seconds of RA too small.

400/500mm - 17.5" (4/29/00): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, 0.9'x0.7'. Bright core, occasional stellar nucleus. Collinear with two mag 13 stars 2.4' NE and 3.5' NE. NGC 3225 lies 45' E.

17.5" (4/9/94): moderately bright, fairly small, round, 1.0' diameter, bright core, fairly high surface brightness. A mag 14 star is 1.5' SW followed by a mag 12 star 2.4' NE and a mag 13 star 4' NE on a line.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb