Edward Swift, the 15 year-old son of Lewis, discovered NGC 6532 = Sw. V-83 on 19 Sep 1886. Lewis recorded "eeF; pS; R; e diff.; in a small vacancy; 3 F stars in line point to it." The position is 25 sec of RA preceding UGC 11085, the only nearby galaxy. His comment "3 F stars in line point to it" probably applies to a string of stars to the west. Bigourdan measured an accurate position on 6 Sep 1888 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/19/90): very faint, fairly small, elongated 3:1 WNW-ESE, low even surface brightness. Located 1° SW of Xi Draconis (V = 3.8).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb