John Herschel discovered NGC 7823 = h4011 on 11 Aug 1836 and recorded "F; S; R; gbM; 15"." His mean position (2 observations) is fairly accurate.

600/800mm - 30" (10/15/15 - OzSky): at 303x; fairly bright, moderately large, round. Sharply concentrated with a bright, bar elongated N-S, punctuated by a bright, very small nucleus. A mag 14.6 star is 1.5' SE and a mag 16.2 star is just 0.8' S. The 20' field is very star poor.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb