Wilhelm Tempel discovered NGC 926 = T I-9 = Sw. V-28 in 1876 with an 11" refractor at the Arcetri Observatory and noted a 1' diameter. Tempel's position is 3' S of UGC 1901 = PGC 9256. This galaxy was also found by Lewis Swift on 3 Oct 1886 and reported new as Sw. V-28. Frank Muller noted the equivalence with Tempel's object in a Sidereal Messenger article in Feb 1887 that listed nebulae from Swift's 5th catalogue which had been discovered previously (acknowledged by Swift in the errata to his 6th list).

400/500mm - 17.5" (12/4/93): fairly faint, elongated 2:1 SSW-NNE, 1.2'x0.6, diffuse unconcentrated glow. A mag 13 star is 2.5' SSW. Located 7' N of a mag 9.5 star. NGC 934 lies 22' ENE. R Ceti (7.2-14) is 7' N.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb