400/500mm - 17.5" (5/14/94): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated, weak even concentration down to a brighter core. A faint double star is 7' N with components mag 12.3 and 13.6 at 16". Forms a close pair with IC 838 1.9' NNE (not seen). Outlying member of AGC 1656.

600/800mm - 24" (6/3/19): at 322x; fairly bright, moderately large, sharply concentrated and dominated by a very bright core. The halo has a very low surface brightness and it was difficult to determne a distinct edge as it faded away. The core increased to a very small very bright nucleus. IC 838 (called NGC 4849A in the RNGC) is just 1.8' N. It appeared very faint, very small, round, low surface brightness, 15" diameter.

24" (5/22/17): at 375x; moderately bright and large, slightly elongated. Sharply concentrated with a 25" core containing a small bright nucleus. The very low surface brightness halo is slightly elongated N-S and extends perhaps 1.0'x0.8'. Forms a close double (Holmberg 495) with IC 838 1.8' NNE. The companion appeared extremely faint and small (V = 15.0), just 10" diameter.