William Herschel discovered NGC 7246 = H III-932 = h2156 on 6 Sep 1793 (sweep 1050) and recorded "eF, S, lE. Just south of a small star, to which it seemed almost to be attached, but is free from it. The star is the first of 3 making a small triangle. His position and description is a perfect match with

MCG -03-56-014 = PGC 68512. JH logged "vF; R; vgbM; has a * 13m south, at a dist from edge = 1 diam by diagram."

Malcolm Thomson found that Bigourdan's IC 5198 is a duplicate of NGC 7246. Bigourdan made positional errors in declination with his offset stars. Once the correct stars are identified, his offsets point to NGC 7246. See Harold Corwin's identification notes on IC 5198.

400/500mm - 17.5" (9/15/90): fairly faint, fairly small, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, weak concentration, faint stellar nucleus. A mag 12.5 star is involved at the north end 1.0' NNE of center.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb