400/500mm - 18" (2/26/11): very faint, small, slightly elongated E-W, 25"x20" (only the core was seen). Nestled in a small triangle of mag 12 stars with sides 1.6', 1.7' and 2.0'. Located in the central region of the Cancer I cluster (NGC 2563 group) 14' WNW of(NGC 2563.

900/1200mm - 48" (4/7/13): at 375x appeared fairly bright, fairly small, brighter along a thin strip of the major axis, elongated 5:2 WSW-ENE, 20"x8", fairly high surface brightness. A faint, thin spike extends out of the southwest side, though in very soft seeing I couldn't see the corresponding extension on the northeast end. PGC 23359 lies 3.0' S. Centered within a roughly equilateral triangle of 12th magnitude stars (sides at most 2').

On the SDSS image, this system appears to be a merger, with a warped, dusty, edge-on disc bisecting an elliptical and protruding out the ends. Listed as a "Good Candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies" in the 1990 "New Observations and a Photographic Atlas of Polar Ring Galaxies" (AJ, 100, 1489) but in a 2000 study "It is shown that its inclusion in a list of candidate galaxies with polar rings is erroneous. In reality, it is a spiral galaxy with a powerful bulge and a disturbed dust disk viewed edge-on."