Albert Marth discovered NGC 7236 = m 468, along with NGC 7237, on 25 Aug 1864 and noted "vF, S, stellar." His declination is off by 1' (too far south). CGCG fails to label this double system as NGC 7236 + 7237. Malcolm Thomson mentions this omission in his unpublished CGCG Corrections.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/20/88): first and brightest of three with NGC 7237 35" SE of center and an anonymous galaxy 1.2' SE, all equally spaced on a NW-SE line. Appears faint, very small, round, small bright core, in a common halo with NGC 7237. Located 2.7' NE of a mag 10 star. The trio forms Arp 169.

600/800mm - 24" (9/27/14): first and brightest in a linear trio (Arp 169) with a total length of only 1.2'. At 375x, NGC 7236 appeared fairly faint, very small, round, compact, high surface brightness, 18" diameter. Forms a very close pair with NGC 7237 just 35" SE. A trio of mag 14 star is to the N and NE and a mag 10 star is 2.7' SW.

Brightest in the poor cluster WBL 678 with CGCG 428-057 5.5' SW ("faint, very small (core), round, 12" diameter"), UGC 11953 13' WSW ("faint, very thin streak, 30"x6", even surface brightness"), CGCG 428-049 15' WSW ("very faint, very elongated 7:2 NNW-SSE, 27"x8", even surface brightness") and CGCG 428-054 8.5' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb