Truman Safford discovered NGC 425 = Sf 62 on 29 Oct 1866 with the 18.5" refractor at the Dearborn Observatory and recorded "pS, pB, gar bM." Édouard Stephan (X-4) independently found the galaxy on 11 Oct 1879 with the 31" reflector at the Marseille Observatory and was credited with the discovery in the NGC, as Safford's discovery list was published in 1887, too late to have been seen by Dreyer.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/16/93): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 NW-SE, 0.8'x0.6', fairly even high surface brightness. A mag 11 star is just off NW edge [29" from center].

Notes by Steve Gottlieb