Stephane Javelle found IC 1448 = J. 472 on 2 Nov 1891. His position matches PGC 69194. This galaxy was first discovered by Leavenworth in 1885 and catalogued as LM 1-253 (= NGC 7308), but his rough position led Javelle to think his object was new. Herbert Howe was able to recover NGC 7308 in 1899-1900 at the University of Denver and measured an accurate position. So, IC 1448 = NGC 7308.

400/500mm - 17.5" (9/15/90): faint, small, round, bright core.

600/800mm - 24" (9/29/16): at 260x; fairly faint, fairly small, 25"-30" diameter, slightly elongated, reasonably high surface brightness. Gradually increases to a very small brighter nucleus. Resides in a barren star field.

NGC 7308 forms a pair with MCG -02-57-018 4' ENE. The companion is faint, fairly small, elongated 5:2 NW-SE, 25"x10", low even surface brightness. MCG -02-57-019 was also picked up 14' NE (again in star-poor field). It was logged as very faint, very small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, 18"x12". A mag 13.5 star is 1.7' WSW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb