Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 594 = LM 1-32 in 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory and recorded "mag 12.5, pS, E 225°." His rough position essentially matches MCG -03-05-005 = PGC 5769 and the position angle is close (SW-NE). Harold Corwin suggests Lewis Swift may have rediscovered this galaxy on 29 Sep 1897 and recorded it in list XII-7 (later IC 1714). Swift's position is 3 degrees north of NGC 594.

400/500mm - 17.5" (12/23/92): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SW-NE, bright core. Located in a barren field 9' SSE of mag 8.8 SAO 147877.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb