Albert Marth discovered NGC 7422 = m 509 = Sf 93 on 11 Aug 1864 and noted "F, S, irr R." His position is accurate. Otto Struve independently discovered this galaxy on 6 Dec 1865 at the Pulkovo Observatory in St Petersburg (in an unsuccessful search for Comet Biela), by d'Arrest on 29 Sep 1866 and by Safford with the 18.5-inch Clark refractor at Dearborn Observatory on 27 Sep 1867! So, this object was "discovered" 4 times, which along with NGC 1360 and NGC 6364, is the most of any NGC entry. Dreyer credited Struve and d'Arrest in the GC Supplement and Marth, Struve and d'Arrest in the NGC. Safford's observation was not published until 1887, a bit too late to be noticed when Dreyer compiled the NGC.

400/500mm - 17.5" (11/1/86): fairly faint, fairly small, round, weak concentration. Located 21' WNW of mag 6.3 SAO 127860. Observation in poor seeing.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb