400/500mm - 17.5" (3/1/03): faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 SW-NE, 0.6'x0.45'. A faint star is on the western edge. To the SE is a groups of stars arranged in two strings, one is elongated NW-SE. Just beyond this group to the SE are a couple of mag 9-10 stars 11' and 12' from the galaxy. Located close to the Camelopardalus border in NE Lynx.