400/500mm - 17.5" (4/5/97): the brightest member of HCG 41 appeared as a faint, fairly small edge-on, extended 5:1 SW-NE, ~1.2'x0.25', contains a well-defined brighter core. With concentration HCG 41B = UGC 5346 located just 2.0' NE was first glimpsed with averted vision and then with concentration could hold both galaxies.

900/1200mm - 48" (2/20/12): UGC 5345 is the brightest of the HCG 41 quartet. At 375x it appeared as a fairly bright edge-on, 0.9'x0.2', small bright bright, stellar nucleus. HCG 41C lies 1.6' NW, HCG 41B is 2' NNE, HCG 41D is 2.7' E and MCG +08-18-045 (a 5th galaxy, but not included by Hickson) is 1.5' SW. A mag 16.6V star lies 1.3' E. The four members of HCG 41 have significantly different redshifts (increasing with faintness), so are likely a chance alignment of unrelated galaxies.