Édouard Stephan discovered NGC 62 = St XIII-2 on 8 Oct 1883 with the 31" reflector at the Marseille Observatory and logged as "F, vS, R, glbM." His position matches MCG -02-01-043 = PGC 1125. This is the southernmost galaxy discovered by Stephan. Francis Leavenworth independently found this nebula in 1886 and included it in list I-2. His rough position was 1.5 tmin too far W (typical error).

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/20/88): fairly faint, small, oval WSW-ENE, weak concentration. Located between mag 7.2 SAO 147195 9' WNW and mag 6.5 SAO 147208 13' E.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb