Ormond Stone discovered NGC 921 = LM 1-51 on 6 Jan 1886 with the 26" refractor at Leander McCormick Observatory. There is nothing at his position but 1.3 min of RA east is MCG -03-07-015 = PGC 9287, and given the rough positions (nearest minute of RA), this is the likely object. Herbert Howe measured an accurate position in 1898-99 using the 20" refractor at Chamberlin Observatory (repeated in the IC 2 notes).

400/500mm - 17.5" (12/20/95): extremely faint, fairly small, elongated 3:2 ~E-W, 1.0'x0.6'. A mag 13 star is 1.2' SE of center.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb