William Herschel discovered NGC 7419 = H VII-43 = h2190 on 3 Nov 1787 (sweep 773) and recorded "a small cluster of vS stars, considerably compressed and pretty rich." His position is accurate. On 29 Sep 1829 (sweep 213), JH logged "a *10m in a cluster of vS stars 15...18m; p rich; vgbM. A star 8m is 2' S."

300/350mm - 13.1" (8/25/84): about a dozen faint stars are visible over unresolved haze with a mag 9.5 star at the NW edge. Appears to be a rich group. Mag 8.2 SAO 20306 is just off the NW edge. About 12' NW is the double star ∑2953 = 7.8/9.8 at 8".

400/500mm - 18" (8/17/04): at 160x this is a small group of 25-30 stars down to mag 15, elongated 3'x1' NW-SE. Located ~3' SE of a mag 8 star. The brightest mag 9.5 star is at the NE tip of the cluster and the fairly rich cluster follows to the SE. A faint pair is near the center of the group

Notes by Steve Gottlieb