Lewis Swift discovered NGC 6592 = Sw. I-86 on 14 Jun 1885 and recorded "vF; vS; R; nearly bet. 2 stars." His position is 14 seconds of RA west of CGCG 301-016 = PGC 61477, the only galaxy near his position. There are a few pairs of surrounding stars that fit his description. Swift later added the comment "1st of 8 [in a group]." Bigourdan measured an accurate position on 3 Oct 1890 as well as Howe in 1899-00, though Dreyer didn't include a corrected position in the IC 2 Notes section.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/11/88): very faint, very small, round, bright core. An extremely faint star is possibly at the west edge. First in a group of at least 7 extremely faint galaxies.

600/800mm - 24" (7/19/12): fairly faint, small, round, 20" diameter, small brighter core. A mag 12.3 star lies 1.7' W. First in a group of 8 NGC galaxies (all discovered by Swift) and one IC.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb