Guillaume Bigourdan discovered NGC 6141 = Big. 79 on 27 May 1886. There is nothing at his Comptes Rendus position, but 3.2' due north is PGC 58077, and Harold Corwin associates NGC 6141 with this galaxy.

The RNGC and HyperLEDA misidentifies NGC 6147 = MCG +07-34-023 as NGC 6141. This galaxy is located 2.7 minutes of time east and 4.8' north of Bigourdan's position. See my RNGC Corrections #2 and Harold Corwin's identification notes.

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/18/01): very faint, very small, slightly elongated 25"x20". With direct vision contains a fairly faint quasi-stellar nucleus. Since this galaxy is not in the MCG or CGCG I expected the observation to be more difficult. A wide pair of mag 11/12 stars lies 3.5' NE and a mag 14.5 star is 1.2' N. The RNGC incorrectly identifies NGC 6147 = MCG +07-34-023 as NGC 6141. Member of AGC 2197.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb