Brightest in a group of 6 galaxies within 20' and in a tight trio with CGCG 075-044 3.7' NW and CGCG 075-048 1.8' SE. CGCG 075-044 appeared fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 E-W, 0.8'x0.6', broad weak concentration. A mag 12 star is 1' N. CGCG 075-04 appeared extremely faint, very small, round, 0.3' diameter.

John Herschel discovered NGC 5627 = h1811 on 4 Apr 1831 and recorded "vF; R; 15"; about 3' f and 40" n of a * 9m.". His position (h1811) matches UGC 9280.

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/18/01): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 5:3 NW-SE, ~1.0'x0.6'. Broad concentration in outer halo but then suddenly rises to a very small bright core. An isosceles triangle of mag 10/12/12 stars is close west with the 10th mag star 3' SW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb