William Herschel discovered NGC 4049 = H III-390 = h1060 on 27 Apr 1785 (sweep 403) and simply noted "suspected." His position (CH"s reduction) is 28 sec of RA followoing UGC 7027. JH made 3 observations and measured a fairly accurate RA on one sweep.

400/500mm - 17.5" (5/11/02): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 1.0'x0.7', weak broad concentration. A mag 11 star is 2.6' SE and another mag 11.5 star is 5' following.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb