This galaxy is located 2.5 minutes of RA west of Ormond Stone's position and the NGC identification is uncertain (it may be NGC 5816 as Stone listed it as 3 magnitudes brighter than NGC 5817) .

Ormond Stone discovered NGC 5817 = LM 1-221, along with NGC 5816, in 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory. He recorded "mag 14.0, 0.8' dia, gbMN, stell." There is nothing at his rough position (nearest min of RA), but 2.5 minutes of RA west is MCG -03-38-041. Herbert Howe's corrected position in his series of NGC/IC observations in Monthly Notices matches MCG -03-38-041, although he doesn't mention NGC 5816. See notes on NGC 5816 for more on this pair.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/30/00): faint, very small, round, 20"-25" diameter, weak concentration. Occasionally a very faint stellar nucleus was seen with direct vision. Collinear with two stars to the WSW [3.5' and 6'] and a 15th magnitude star close ENE [1.5'] is also on this line. MCG +03-38-042 lies 13' SE (see observation).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb