Forms a pair with UGC 12358 4.8' NW (incorrectly identified in RNGC as NGC 7485). UGC 12358 appeared extremely faint, very elongated ~E-W, near visual threshold. A star attached at the southwest end detracts from viewing.

John Herschel discovered NGC 7485 = h2207 on 19 Aug 1828 and recorded "vF; S; R; bM; 12"; has a * 10m, 5' preceding in same parallel. His position is just 2 seconds of RA west of UGC 12360, though the mag 10 star is 7' west-northwest.

The RNGC misidentifies UGC 12358 as NGC 7485. This extremely faint edge-on galaxy is located 4.8' northwest of NGC 7485. The correct data for NGC 7485 is listed in the RNGC under NGC 7486. This error was listed in my RNGC Corrections #3.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/13/88): fairly faint, fairly small, slightly elongated oval NW-SE, bright core, faint stellar nucleus. A close mag 15 double star is 1.8' ESE = NGC 7486.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb