Édouard Stephan discovered NGC 99 = St XIII-3 on 8 Oct 1883 with the 31" reflector at the Marseille Observatory and logged as "vF, R, 1' dia, gbM." His position matches UGC 230 = PGC 1523.
400/500mm - 17.5" (10/8/88): faint, fairly small, round, weak concentration. A mag 14 star is 1.4' WNW. NGC 100 lies 42' N.
Notes by Steve Gottlieb