Heinrich d'Arrest discovered NGC 7682 on 23 Sep 1862 with the 11-inch refractor at Copenhagen. His position is accurate (measured a total of 3 nights) and he mentioned a mag 14 star preceded by 13.7 seconds of RA. d'Arrest didn't record brighter NGC 7679 until 2 years later.

300/350mm - 13.1" (9/9/83): very faint, diffuse, slightly elongated.

400/500mm - 17.5" (8/1/87): fairly faint, small, elongated 4:3 ~N-S, brighter core, faint stellar nucleus. Larger of a pair with NGC 7679 4.3' WSW.

600/800mm - 24" (9/29/16): at 200x; fairly faint to moderately bright, fairly small, elongated 4:3 NNW-SSE, ~32"x24", bright core. In a trio with NGC 7679 4.5' WSW and UGC 12628 10' SSE. UGC 12628 appeared fairly faint, fairly large, slightly elongated, ~1.2'x1.0', low but uneven surface brightness (face-on spiral). A few times I detected a central bar running SW-NE (confirmed on the DSS).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb