Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 567 = LM 1-31 in 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory and logged "mag 15, vS, R". His rough position (RA given as uncertain) is 1.0 tmin east of MCG -02-04-053 = PGC 5402.

400/500mm - 17.5" (11/6/93): faint, very small, round, small bright core, stellar nucleus. A mag 11.5 star is 4.5' S.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb