John Herschel discovered NGC 7098 = h3876 on 22 Sep 1835 and recorded "pF; R; first vg, the psbM; in a field with many large stars, and strongly stippled." His position is 1.8 minutes of RA too large, though at this declination, the actual separation is 7'.

The RA in RC 2 is 2.5 minutes too large and this error is repeated in RNGC. The correct position is given in ESO and RC3.

600/800mm - 24" (4/12/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x appeared bright, large, sharply concentrated with a small, intense core ~20" in diameter. Surrounding the core is a large, fainter halo, elongated 3:2 SW-NE, ~2.0'x1.4'. This galaxy appears much brighter than NGC 7095, which was just previously observed, although the total B magnitudes are identical.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb