Lewis Swift discovered NGC 7399 = Sw. II-93 on 15 Nov 1884 and recorded "eF; pL; mistaken for Barnard's Comet 1884 II." There is nothing at his position, but 22 seconds of RA west and 1' south is MCG -02-58-006 = PGC 69902. Herbert Howe measured an accurate position at the Chamberlin Observatory in Denver in 1898-99 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/7/91): faint, small, elongated 3:2 NW-SE, bright core. A mag 13 star is 1.1' N.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb