Scheiner photographed the California Nebula NGC 1499 with a 4" f/3.3 Voigtländer Euryskop (exposure time 6 hours) in Nov. 1893 at Potsdam Observatory; see: Über den großen Nebel bei x Persei (NGC 1499), AN 132, 203 (1893), which encludes the nice sketch shown below (mentioned by Dreyer in the notes of the IC I). On Oct. 27, 1891 Archenhold found the nebula with a 3.1" portrait lense at Halensee, near Berlin. But NGC 1499 was first seen visually by Barnard on Nov. 2, 1885.

Obituary: Obs. 37, 109 (1914); PASP 26, 62 (1914); MNRAS 74, 282 (1914); VJS 49, 22 (1914); ApJ 41,1 (1915)

 

Potsdam Observatory