William Herschel discovered NGC 5675 = H II-422 = h1839 on 1 May 1785 (sweep 405) and logged "F, cL, unequally bright, irregular." JH called this galaxy "F; S; E; bM" and measured an accurate position.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/20/98): moderately bright and large, elongated 5:2 NW-SE, 1.8'x0.7', broad concentration with large oval core. With direct vision a faint quasi-stellar nucleus is visible at times. A wide pair [33" separation] of mag 11/12.5 stars lies 6' SE.

600/800mm - 24" (6/15/15): moderately to fairly bright, fairly large, elongated 5:2 NW-SE, 1.5'x0.6', bright core.

UGC 9350, located 7.8' W, is fairly faint, fairly small, thin edge-on 4:1 SSW-NNE, 36"x9". Situated just 30" W of a mag 11.3 star which detracts somewhat from viewing.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb