Lewis Swift discovered NGC 6616 = Sw. II-64 on 14 July 1885 and recorded "vF; eS; eE; forms S equilateral triangle with 2 F st." There is nothing at his position, but 25 seconds of RA west is UGC 11192 and his description applies (the stars are southwest and west). Herbert Howe measured an accurate micrometric position in 1898-99 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/16/88): very faint, small, elongated SW-NE, broad concentration. A mag 13 star is 1.1' W of center.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb