William Herschel discovered NGC 4707 = H III-815 on 26 Apr 1789 (sweep 929) and noted "small, stellar neb." His position (CH's reduction) is 20 tsec east and 1' north of UGC 7971.

400/500mm - 18" (3/30/05): very unusual appearance to this magellanic spiral as all I could detect was a moderately large (~1.5') very low surface brightness glow with no concentration surrounding what appeared to be a mag 14 star. The DSS and SDSS confirms this is a star and the galaxy extends mostly to the west of the star.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb