William Herschel discovered NGC 7052 = H III-145 = h2112 on 10 Sep 1784 (sweep 263) and noted "vF, lE, stellar." On 14 Oct 1786 (sweep 610), he reported "F, S, lE, bM. I see it much clearer this way [using the "front-view" without a secondary], than I have formerly done (263 sweep) in the Newtonian construction." Herschel reverted to the front-view method (first experimented with in May 1784) starting on 22 Sep 1786 (sweep 600). John Herschel logged "F; R; 20"; the RA may be 2 or 3 seconds out." His RA as 13 seconds of time too large.

300/350mm - 13.1" (7/20/85): moderately bright, pretty edge-on WSW-ENE. Bulging bright core contains a substellar nucleus, fainter extensions. At 220x an extremely faint mag 15 star is visible off the NE edge.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb