Édouard Stephan discovered NGC 7440 = St VIII(a)-25 on 9 Oct 1876. His micrometric position is very accurate. Bigourdan's "corrected" position in the his 22 Jul 1901 Comptes Rendus paper (repeated in the IC 2 Notes section) is 10 seconds too far east and 4' too far north and lands on a double star.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/27/92): faint, small, slightly elongated, broad concentration. Located just west of a string of four stars mag 13-14 oriented N-S.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb