John Herschel discovered NGC 7095 = h3875 on 21 Sep 1837 and recorded "F; pL; R; vglbM; 50"." His mean position (2 observations) matches ESO 027-001 = PGC 67546. Unfortunately, he miscopied his declination in the GC and Dreyer didn't catch the error in the NGC. The mistake apparently was caused by using the north polar distance of NGC 7097 instead of NGC 7095.

Because of this error the RNGC, PGC and HyperLeda has misidentified ESO 287-042 as NGC 7095. ESO and modern Atlases such as Uranometria 2000 and the Pocket Sky Atlas doesn't label ESO 027-001 as NGC 7095. The RNGC error is included in my RNGC Correction list #6.

600/800mm - 24" (4/12/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly large, 1.8'x1.5', slightly elongated ~E-W, weak concentration to the center. A star is at the north edge of the halo.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb