William Herschel discovered NGC 6182 = H III-813 on 24 Apr 1789 (sweep 928) and logged "vF, vS, iR." His position (CH's reduction) is 25 sec of time following UGC 10424, the only nearby galaxy he might have picked up. Bigourdan measured an accurate position on 19 Jul 1884.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/20/87): fairly faint, fairly small, small bright core, thin fainter extensions NW-SE. Located 3.0' SE of mag 9 SAO 29964. Forms a pair with CGCG 276-023 2.1' SSW. The companion appeared very faint, very small, elongated ~E-W, brighter core, visible continuously with averted at 222x.

17.5" (6/18/88): faint, small, small bright core, elongated NW-SE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb