400/500mm - 18" (3/19/04): this Seyfert galaxy was picked up at 73x (31 Nagler) as a slightly fuzzy "knot". At 160x, either a sharp stellar nucleus ~14th magnitude is easily visible or a mag 14 star is superimposed at the center (appears to be the nucleus). Surrounding the stellar nucleus is a very small halo, ~15" diameter and with averted vision a very low surface brightness hazy glow appears to surround this knot, perhaps 1.5' diameter though very difficult to determine extent. A faint triangle of stars is superimposed on the NE edge of the extremely faint halo, ~1.3' from center. This well-studied object (264 references in NED) contains an active galactic nucleus (S10838 = variable 14.4-15.5) and is a powerful X-ray and Gamma-ray source. Located in a fairly rich star field.