Albert Marth discovered NGC 7080 = m 446 on 6 Sep 1863 and noted "vF, S, vlE." His position is accurate. Édouard Stephan independently rediscovered the galaxy on 31 Aug 1872 and reported it in list IV-4 (later catalogued as NGC 7054), but with an erroneous position due to an error with the offset star. So, NGC 7080 = NGC 7054. See NGC 7054 for the story.

300/350mm - 13.1" (7/20/85): fairly faint, fairly small, round, bright core, stellar nucleus or star superimposed, diffuse outer halo. Two mag 14 stars are off the NE and east edges 52" and 66" from the center, respectively.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb