William Herschel discovered NGC 4296 = H III-92, along with NGC 4297, on 13 Apr 1784 (sweep 191) and recorded both as "vF, vS; and one still smaller and fainter suspected just by." His single offset is just 5 sec of RA following UGC 7409.

400/500mm - 17.5" (3/24/90): fairly faint, very small, bright core, very faint elongated halo N-S mostly visible to the south of the core. Forms a pair with NGC 4297 1.1' NNW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb