Albert Marth discovered NGC 347 = m 28 on 27 Sep 1864 with Lassell's 48" on Malta and logged "vF, vS". This is the 4th in a group of 6 galaxies discovered that night (NGC 340, 342, 345, 347, 349, 350). At Marth's position is PGC 3673, situated 4' N of mag 7.2 HD 6031 and Karl Reinmuth, in his 1926 survey of Herschel's catalogues based on Heidelberg plates, identifies this galaxy as NGC 347.

But RNGC misidentifies PGC 1028378 as NGC 347 and it is misplotted on the first edition of the Uranometria 2000 Atlas.. PGC 1028378 is located at 01 01 29.1 -06 48 41 (J2000), just 1.5' SW of the mag 7.2 star, and is a more difficult object visually (see notes). PGC correctly identifies NGC 347 but also claims it is equal to IC 71. See Corwin's notes and my RNGC Corrections #7.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/8/94): very faint, very small, round, 20" diameter, very weak concentration. Located 4' N of mag 7.5 SAO 129988. A mag 13.5 star is 2.1' NE. Member of the NGC 349 group.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb