George Johnstone Stoney, Lord Rosse's assistant, discovered NGC 5569 on 26 Apr 1849. During an observation of NGC 5560 and 5566 he noted "a new neb eeF, gvlbM, north following h1779 [NGC 5566].

400/500mm - 17.5" (3/23/85): extremely faint, almost round, fairly small, just visible at 200x. This difficult galaxy is the faintest of three and located just 4.1' NE of the center of NGC 5566 and 6.8' E of NGC 5560.

600/800mm - 24" (5/11/13): faint, fairly large, very diffuse glow with a very weak core, slightly elongated, ~1.2'x1.0'. Faintest in a triplet; 4.3' NE of NGC 5566 and 7.0' E of NGC 5560.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb