Guillaume Bigourdan found IC 1172 = Big. 199 on 8 Jun 1888. Harold Corwin notes his "position and description are exactly that of NGC 6044, the identity is certain." NGC 6044 was discovered by Swift on 27 Jun 1886 and reported in list IV-23, along with several other members of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster. His description reads "eeF; vS; R; vf * nr p[receding]; 5th of 10." and his position is 10 seconds west of CGCG 108-110 = PGC 57015. CGCG labels the galaxy as IC 1172, though MCG uses NGC 6044. In any case, IC 1172 = NGC 6044.

400/500mm - 17.5" (5/13/88): very faint, very small, round. A mag 14 star lies 1.4' WSW. Located 5.6' N of NGC 6043 in the core of AGC 2151.

600/800mm - 24" (8/1/19): at 322x; faint, small, round, 20" diameter, very small brighter nucleus. A mag 13 star is 1.4' WSW. PGC 57020 lies 2.4' S, LEDA 84714 is 5.6' WSW and PGC 57055 is 5.5' ESE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb