William Herschel discovered NGC 7680 = H III-860 = h2246 = St IX-39 on 2 Nov 1790 (sweep 975) and "vF, S, lbM." His RA is 6 seconds too small (CH's reduction). JH made a single observation but didn't measure a good position. Heinrich d'Arrest measured an accurate micrometric position on 7 Nov 1863. Stephan also found this galaxy on 30 Oct 1878, reported it as new in list IX-39, and his micrometric position is very accurate.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/13/88): moderately bright, very bright core, moderately large halo slightly elongated SSW-NNE. Several faint stars are near including two 14th mag stars 40" S and 1.2' E of center. In a trio with CGCG 497-024 7' NW and LEDA 214962 4' SW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb