The Fourcade-Figueroa Galaxy = ESO 270-017 (possible remnant or "shard", resulting from a close interaction between Centaurus A and a spiral galaxy), lies 45' NW. I was pleased to make a definite sighting as an extremely faint, very elongated glow, particularly extending east-southeast of a mag 11 star. The very low surface brightness glow was "pointing" just south of a mag 9 star (HD 118087), which is 8' ESE of the mag 11 star (roughly the center of the Fourcade-Figueroa System), and extended at least 2'x 0.4'. A short extension on the west-northwest side of the star was difficult to confirm but was marginally glimpsed. The mag 11 near the center forms the northeast vertex of a small quadrilateral (sides 1.2' or less) of mag 10.5, 12.5 and 13 stars. The faintest star is superimposed on west-northwest extension of the galaxy.

John Herschel discovered NGC 5244 = h3525 on 1 Jun 1834 and recorded "vF; S; R; vglbM; has a * at its edge." His position and description matches ESO 270-023. NGC 5219 is a duplicate entry (from another observation two nights later). ESO-LV identifies this galaxy as NGC 5219. MCG fails to label MCG -07-28-007 as NGC 5244.

300/350mm - 14" (4/2/16 - Coonabarabran, 160x): fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, oval 2:1 SSW-NNE, ~45"x20". A mag 13.5 star is at the north edge. The galaxy appears to extend (south) from the star. A mag 8.5 star is 9.5' WSW and three fairly bright, nearly collinear stars lie 8' ENE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb