Truman Safford discovered NGC 6941 = Sf 83 = St IV-3 on 29 Aug 1867 with the 18.5-inch refractor at the Dearborn Observatory. Édouard Stephan independently rediscovered the galaxy on 1 Sep 1872. His micrometric position matches MCG -01-52-010 = PGC 65054. As Safford's discovery list wasn't published until 1887 as the NGC was being prepared to go to press, so Stephan is credited with the discovery in the GC Supplement and the NGC.

NGC 6941 was misclassified as a globular cluster in the RNGC and this error as repeated in NGC 2000.0 as well as early versions of the Uranometria 2000 star atlas. This error was listed in my RNGC Corrections paper #3.

400/500mm - 17.5" (7/16/88): very faint, small, round, bright core. Incorrectly listed as a globular cluster in the RNGC, NGC 2000 and U2000.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb