Francis Leavenworth discovered NGC 756 = LM 1-42 on 9 Nov 1885 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick. His rough position is 1.7 min of RA east of MCG -03-05-029 = PGC 7078. Bigourdan was unable to recover the galaxy at Leavenworth's place. Herbert Howe measured an accurate position in 1899-00 using the 20" refractor at Chamberlin Observatory (repeated in the IC 2 notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/25/97): very faint, small, round, 25" diameter, weak concentration. Situated ~2' S of a small obtuse triangle of mag 13-14 stars.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb