Guillaume Bigourdan discovered IC 1452 = B. 235 on 10 Oct 1890. Both Malcolm Thomson and Harold Corwin noticed a six-degree error in the IC polar distance compared to Bigourdan's original position (1860 coordinations) in his 5th Comptes Rendus list. Once corrected, his position matches CGCG 430-005 = PGC 69675. The CGCG, MCG, PGC, SIMBAD and HyperLeda (and secondary sources) don't label this galaxy as IC 1452. The RNGC identifies this galaxy as NGC 7374B.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/20/88): very faint, extremely small, round. Forms a double system with NGC 7374 57" SSE.

600/800mm - 24" (10/1/16): at 260x; with direct vision a sharp mag 14.5-14.8 "star" is easily visible. But averted vision revealed the sharp stellar nucleus of this galaxy is surrounded by a very small halo, ~6"-8" diameter. The halo was not difficult to pick out with averted once noticed. IC 1452 forms a close pair (less than 1' NNW) with NGC 7374.

24" (7/29/16): at 260x; faint, virtually stellar (uncertain if a star). IC 1452 forms a double system with NGC 7374 [centers separated by 56"]. Apparently I only viewed the stellar nucleus of this galaxy.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb