IC 3834 appeared faint, small, round, low even surface brightness. A mag 15 star lies 43" W of center. Located 11' NE of the NGC 4727/4724 pair.

Wilhelm Tempel discovered NGC 4726 in 1882. In the narrative portion of his fifth paper (AN 2439) he mentions "4' further north of the beautiful double nebula [NGC 4724/4727] is a fainter companion." Dreyer's position is 4' north of the midpoint of[NGC 4724 and 4727. LEDA 926789 is situated 4.5' north-northwest of the pair and the only galaxy in the vicinity. But is it too faint to have been picked up by Tempel with the 11-inch refractor at Arcetri Observatory? Possibly, so this identification is uncertain.

Herbert Howe searched unsuccessfully for this object at the NGC position in 1899 with the 20-inch refractor in Denver. But on two nights he measured an object which he assumed was NGC 4726. His position (repeated in the IC 2 Notes) matches IC 3834 = PGC 43559, a much brighter galaxy discovered by Bigourdan on 14 Apr 1895 and recorded as B. 303. This galaxy is nearly 11' northeast of[NGC 4724/4727, so it doesn't match Tempel's object. But based on Dreyer's erroneous "corrected" position, modern catalogues (with the exception of NED) identify IC 3834 as NGC 4726.

400/500mm - 18" (5/16/09): extremely faint, very small, slightly elongated, 15"x12". Based on this description I only viewed the core region of this thin edge-on. Located 1.2' SSE of a mag 12 star and 4.5' NW of the NGC 4724/4727 duo. The identification of this NGC number is uncertain and most other sources equate it with IC 3834.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb