Lewis Swift discovered NGC 7094 = Sw. II-88 on 10 Oct 1884 and recorded "nebulous star; B *; in eeF nebulosity; v diff.; nearly pointed to by 3 st. in a line." His RA is 34 seconds too small. He added in a footnote, "This is a prototype of GC 4634 [NGC 7023] and several others, and of No. 7 of my Catalogue No. 1 [NGC 2247], which differs from most nebulous stars by being exactly in the center of circular nebulous atmospheres of uniform brightness." Wolfgang Steinicke mentions that Swift called this object "the most wonderful of all [nebulous stars] - in fact it is the only instance known to me - for instead of the central star being single, it is double." There is a second star involved but it is not central, rather displaced to the northeast edge.

Lubos Kohoutek rediscovered NGC 7094 during a visual survey of the POSS and included it in a list of new PN (K 1-19) published in 1963.

300/350mm - 13" (6/18/85): at 62x with filter appears faint, moderately large, round. Without a filter the faint mag 13.7 central star is visible surrounded by a very low even surface brightness halo 1.5' in diameter.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/2/99): at 100x and OIII filter appears fairly faint, round, moderately large, 1.5' diameter, even glow. At 220x without filter, the central star is easily visible surrounded by a round, low surface brightness glow. A very faint star is at the NE edge. No annularity seen.

600/800mm - 24" (8/31/16): excellent view at 200x using a NPB filter. The 90" disc was fairly crisply defined and contained a bright central star (mag 13.5), even through the filter. Unfiltered, a mag 14.5-15 star was visible at the NE edge. The planetary apppeared weakly annular and brighter in a 90° arc along the west side. There appeared to be a knot or local brightening right at the west edge of the rim. Located 1.8° NE of M15.

The compact galaxy II Zw 141 lies 6' WNW. It appeared faint, very small, round, 12" diameter. On the DSS a mag 15.2 star is at the southwest edge (6" separation from the center of II Zw 141) and probably the galaxy + star were merged visually.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb