Lewis Swift discovered NGC 519 = Sw. VI-8 (along with NGC 530, 538, 557) on 20 Nov 1886 with the 16" refractor at the Warner Observatory. His position is 7 sec of RA west and 1.3' south of CGCG 385-103 = PGC 5182.

400/500mm - 17.5" (9/19/87): extremely faint and small, round. A mag 14 star is 45" S. Member of the AGC 194 cluster.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb