Distorted, patchy appearance on the SDSS that may be the result of the post-collision merger. HyperLeda catalogues the companion a PGC 3100716 and NED gives the primary designation SHOC 103.

Lewis Swift discovered NGC 806 = Sw. V-19 on 1 Nov 1886 with the 16" refractor at Warner Observatory and logged "eeF; S; R; pB * nr; extr difficult". His RA was 13 seconds too large but his comment of a "pB * nr" applies to this galaxy.

400/500mm - 17.5" (10/8/94): fairly faint, very elongated 3:1 WSW-ENE, irregular surface brightness, probably brighter on the west end. A mag 11 star is 3.7' NNE of center.

17.5" (12/23/92): faint, fairly small, very elongated 3:1 SW-NE, even surface brightness, asymmetric appearance with a very faint stellar nucleus offset to the NE end or an extremely faint star may be superimposed near NE tip. A mag 11 star is 3.5' NE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb