John Herschel discovered NGC 483 = h102 on 11 Nov 1827 and reported "vF, so that had difficulty in finding it again when it had quitted the field". His declination is 5' S of UGC 906, but it was marked as uncertain in the observation and he assumed it was his father's H. III-156 = NGC 495. The NGC position is correct (Heinrich d'Arrest and Herman Schultz provided accurate positions). See Corwin's notes for NGC 499.

300/350mm - 13.1" (8/8/86): faint, small, round, weak concentration. There is a string of three stars oriented SSW-NNE following including two mag 10 stars 2.6' ESE and 3' ENE and a mag 13 star 3.8' NE. Member of the NGC 499/507 group.

600/800mm - 24" (10/4/13): fairly bright, fairly small, round, 30" diameter, high surface brightness, increases gradually to a small bright nucleus. The halo is slightly elongated with averted vision. Two mag 10.2/11 stars lie ~3' E. IC 1679 lies 3' SW (very faint, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, 20"x14") and PGC 169764 ("extremely faint and small, round, 8" diameter") is just 1.2' SE. Member of the NGC 507 Group.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb