300/350mm - 13.1" (6/29/84): extremely faint, very small, round. Situated between two mag 14 stars about 1' N and 1' S and two mag 9.5 stars 5.3' NE and 6.4' SW.

600/800mm - 24" (7/21/12): at 325x appeared moderately bright, fairly small, slightly elongated N-S or NNW-SSE, 25"x20". This is the core of the galaxy and the nucleus is a brighter 10" inner region. The two very low surface brightness spiral arms stretching out southwest and northeast were not noticed. Forms a close pair with II Zw 102 = Mrk 897 1.2' NE (at the tip of the northeast spiral arm). The companion appeared as a high surface brightness 10" "knot" with a fairly bright stellar nucleus and a small faint halo.