Lewis Swift discovered NGC 7836 = Sw. II-2 on 20 Sep 1885 and recorded "eF; vS; R; between 2 stars." There is nothing near his position but 75 seconds of RA east and 8' north is UGC 65. Similar offsets in RA and Dec yield identities for NGC 19, NGC 21 and NGC 7831, all discovered the same night (NGC 6 also shares the same offset in RA). Bigourdan measured a corrected position matching UGC 65 on 7 Sep 1888 (repeated in the IC 2 Notes). UGC 65 is not labeled as NGC 7836 in the UGC or CGCG. RNGC and PGC have the correct identification. See Malcolm Thomson's "CGCG Corrections" and Corwin's notes for more on the story.

400/500mm - 17.5" (11/14/87): fairly faint, small, round, small bright core. A string of four mag 11-12 stars of 5' length follows. Not identified as NGC 7831 in the UGC or CGCG. Listed as Anon 1 in the Webb Society Deep Sky Observers Handbook on Anonymous Galaxies.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb