Lewis Swift discovered NGC 5083 = Sw. I-23 on 14 Jun 1885 and recorded "pF; R; pL; DM +2644/5 point to it." His position is just 7 sec of RA west of UGC 8367 and the description matches. Bigourdan was unable to find this galaxy.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/1/02): faint, fairly small, round, 1.0' diameter. Low surface brightness with little or no concentration. Collinear with a mag 10 star 4.5' NNE and mag 9.3 SAO 63470 8' NE (nearly equally spaced).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb