Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1350 (= GC 721 = JH 2545, Dunlop 591, 1860 (RA 03 24, NPD 124 12) is "bright, large, much extended, very much brighter middle and round nucleus". The second IC lists a corrected position (per DeLisle Stewart) of RA 03 25 44, NPD 124 06, and adds "annular; h's place was very rough".
Physical Information: Based on recessional velocity measurements of 1440 and 1905 km/sec (!), NGC 1350 is 65 to 90 million light years away, in good agreement with equally variable redshift-independent distance estimates of 55 to 85 million light years. Given that and an apparent size of about 6.2 by 3.2 arcmin (from the images below), it is between 115 and 145 thousand light years across. Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type (R₁')SAB(r)ab. (The designation FCC 88 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1351 (= GC 722 = JH 2544, 1860 RA 03 25 08, NPD 125 20.2) is "pretty bright, pretty small, round, pretty suddenly brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.9 by 2.3 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 83 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.5 by 0.4 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 67 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1352 (= GC 723 = JH 2543, 1860 RA 03 25 17, NPD 109 45.6) is "extremely faint, pretty suddenly a little brighter middle, diffuse, 8th magnitude star to southeast".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.1 by 0.75 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1353 (= GC 724 = JH 2546 = WH III 246, 1860 RA 03 25 49, NPD 111 17.8) is "pretty bright, considerably large, irregularly extended, much brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 4.0 by 1.8 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1354 (= GC 725 = JH 2547 = WH III 487, 1860 RA 03 26 02, NPD 105 41.5) is "very faint, small, a little extended, gradually a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.0 by 1.0 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1355 (= GC 5314, d'Arrest, 1860 RA ) is "pretty faint, small".
Discovery Notes: Identification of Samuel Hunter, an assistant of the 3rd Lord Rosse, as the actual discoverer is due to Steinicke (more later).
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.4 by 0.25 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1356 (= GC 728 = JH 2549, 1860 RA 03 26 31, NPD 140 45.9) is "very faint, pretty large, irregularly round, gradually brighter middle, star near".
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity of 11795 km/sec, a straightforward calculation indicates that NGC 1356 is about 550 million light years away. However, for objects at such distances we should take into account the expansion of the Universe during the time it took their light to reach us. Doing that shows that the galaxy was about 525 million light years away at the time the light by which we see it left it, about 535 million years ago (the difference between the two numbers being caused by the expansion of the intervening space during the light-travel time). Given that and the galaxy's apparent size of about 1.65 by 0.95 arcmin (from the images below), it is about 260 thousand light years across. As shown in the images below the galaxy is a spectacular object, so it is unfortunate that no better images seem to be currently available. (Corwin lists an apparent companion, PGC 95415, at RA 03 30 39.8, Dec -50 19 12, but that may be merely a brighter part of the main galaxy; I need to do some research to see what is most likely.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1357 (= GC 726 = JH 2548 = WH II 290, 1860 RA 03 26 44, NPD 104 08.4) is "pretty faint, pretty large, round, a little brighter middle, 9th magnitude star to northeast".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 4.0 by 2.9 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1358 (= GC 727 = JH 302 = WH III 446, 1860 RA 03 26 44, NPD 95 33.5) is "very faint, small, between 2 stars".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.1 by 1.4 arcmin? A Seyfert galaxy (type Sy 2). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type (R')SB(s)a.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1359 (= GC 729 = JH 2550, 1860 RA 03 27 29, NPD 109 58.6) is "faint, large, round, very gradually a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.5 by 1.5 arcmin?

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1360 (= GC 5315, Swift 1857, Winnecke, (Tempel), (Block), 1860 RA 03 27 36, NPD 116 18.5) is "an 8th magnitude star in bright, large nebula, extended north-south". The position precesses to RA 03 33 33.5, Dec -25 50 04, about 4.8 arcmin northeast of the star noted in the NGC entry, but the nebula is so large that the position is only about 1.6 arcmin from its northeastern rim, the description is a perfect fit and there is nothing else nearby, so the identification is certain.
Discovery Notes: Block was not credited with the discovery by Dreyer, despite publishing his observation in A.N. 2293, in date?, hence his name being added to the NGC entry in parentheses. Similarly, Tempel was not credited with the discovery by Dreyer, as he did not publish his observation until 1882, hence his name being added in parentheses to the NGC entry. Swift did not publish his observation until 1885, but Dreyer did take notice of it in the NGC (but not in his earlier 1877 Supplement to the GC, in which he credited only Winnecke with the discovery); however, he misrecorded the date of Swift's observation (stated by Swift in the Sidereal Messenger as 1859). Finally, although Swift and Tempel were the first to record the object, Winnecke was the first to publish his observation; as a result, some references incorrectly list him as the discoverer, but apparently none of the observers were aware of any of the other observations, so as shown above, there were four independent discoveries (per Steinecke, a record for the NGC, albeit along with NGC 6364 and NGC 7422).
Note About PGC Designation: For purposes of completeness, LEDA assigns a PGC designation to almost all NGC/IC objects, even if they are not galaxies, but a search of the database for the designation shown above returns no result, so it is shown in quotes.
Physical Information: NGC 1360 was originally thought to be a more or less ordinary nebula, but modern observations show that it has strong emission lines due to doubly ionized oxygen atoms (O III), which give it its pronouned blue color and confirm that it is a planetary nebula. Even more recent observations have shown that the "star" which produced and energizes it is actually a double star, consisting of a "normal" white dwarf of about 0.68 solar masses and an extremely hot (and therefore extremely "young" white dwarf) of type O, with a mass of about 0.56 solar masses. Originally, both stars must have been more massive than the Sun, because stars of lower than solar mass have lifetimes far longer than the age of the Universe, but each star lost significant amounts of mass when it ejected a planetary nebula (the one from the cooler white dwarf presumably quite a while ago and now unobservable, and the one from the O-type white dwarf far more recently and therefore still visible as the nebula we now see). The nebula has an apparent size of about 8.4 by 5.7 arcmin (from the image belows), or about 13.0 by 5.7 arcmin including the reddish extensions at either end of the nebula (bright at the northern end, but much fainter at the southern end), which undoubtedly represents material ejected before the final "death" of the star that now lights up the nebula.
 Determining the distance of the stars which light up planetary nebulae is very difficult, so the distance of NGC 1360 is poorly known, with estimates ranging from about 1150 to 1800 light years. Given that large uncertainty, the apparent size of the "Robin's Egg" corresponds to somewhere between about 2.8 to 4.4 light years, and of the nebula and its reddish extensions, somewhere between about 4.4 to 8.2 light years.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1361 (Ormond Stone list II (#370), 1860 RA 03 27 38, NPD 96 43.1) is "extremely faint, extremely small, gradually brighter middle and nucleus".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.2 by 0.9 arcmin (from the images shown below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1362 (= GC 730 = JH 2551 = WH III 960, 1860 RA 03 27 39, NPD 110 46.1) is "very faint, small, round".
Discovery Query: Traditionally, GC 730 = JH 2551 has been equated with WH III 960; and if that is correct, NGC 1362 was discovered by William Herschel on Dec 17, 1799. But Steinicke's current database states that III 960 is not NGC 1362, but NGC 1370 = WH III 559; and if that is correct, John Herschel's observation of Nov 13, 1835 represented the first observation of NGC 1362.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.3 by 1.1 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1363 (Burnham, 1860 RA 03 28 06, NPD 100 18.8) is "very faint, small, round, 7th magnitude star 3.5 arcmin southwest, southwestern of 2", the other being NGC 1364.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 0.9 by 0.7 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1364 (Muller list II (#371), 1860 RA 03 28 16, NPD 100 18.1) is "very faint, small, very little extended, northeastern of 2", the other being NGC 1363.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 0.5 by 0.45 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1365 (= GC 731 = JH 2552, (Dunlop 562), 1860 RA 03 28 18, NPD 126 36.5) is "a very remarkable object, very bright, very large, much extended, mottled but not resolved nucleus".
Discovery Notes: The recognition of Dunlop's #562 as this object and therefore its discovery prior to Herschel's observation is relatively recent, hence its inclusion in the NGC entry in parentheses.
Physical Information: NGC 1365 is a member of the Fornax Cluster (the designation FCC 121 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog), the second richest cluster of galaxies within 100 million light years, and a Seyfert galaxy (type Sy 1.8). Based on a recessional velocity of 1635 km/sec, the galaxy is about 75 million light years away, in good agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of 35 to 80 million light years, and the average estimated distance of the cluster (about 60 million light years). Given that and its apparent size of 11.2 by 6.2 arcmin(?), NGC 1365 is about 200 thousand light years across. A rotating density wave triggers the formation of new star clusters in the spiral arms, helps maintain the structure of the bar, and funnels material into the bar, feeding its growth and most likely that of a supermassive black hole hidden within the dusty clouds that partially obscure the bar. Because of the huge mass of the galaxy (more than a trillion solar masses), the bar rotates at well over a thousand miles a second, but even at such speeds the spiral arms take three or four hundred million years to move once around the galaxy's vast circumference. Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type SB(s)bc.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1366 (= GC 732 = JH 2553 = WH III 857, 1860 RA 03 28 18, NPD 121 40.6) is "very faint, small, irregular figure, a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.0 by 0.8 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1367 (Ormond Stone list I (#106), 1860 RA 03 28 40, NPD 115 24.1) is "very faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 8.2 by 5.6 arcmin (including the faint outer regions, as shown in the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type (R')SAB(rs)a.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1368 (Leavenworth list I (#107), 1860 RA 03 28 40, NPD 106 10.1) is "very faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.3 by 0.6 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1369 (= GC 5316, J Schmidt (b), 1860 RA 03 28 41, NPD 126 44.6) is "faint". (Corwin gives the precessed NGC position, but there is nothing there; the object listed above is the most likely candidate.)
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.6 by 1.5 arcmin (from the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type SAB(s)a. (The designation FCC 176 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1370 (= GC 733 = JH 2554 = WH III 559 (= III 960), 1860 RA 03 29 01, NPD 110 50.8) is "very faint, small, round, between two 14th magnitude stars".
Discovery Notes: Traditionally, WH III 960 has been associated with NGC 1362, in which case William Herschel would be the discoverer of that object; but recently, Steinicke has decided that III 960 is a duplicate of III 559, as shown by its parenthetical inclusion in Dreyer's NGC entry. The two entries will not be considered final until I see whether there is now general agreement with that reassignment of the 1799 observation of III 960.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.6 by 1.1 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1371 (= GC 734 = JH 2555 = WH II 262, 1860 RA 03 29 02, NPD 115 24.4) is "pretty bright, pretty large, very little extended, pretty sudennly brighter middle".
Physical Information: Given the duplicate entry, see NGC 1367 for anything else.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1372 (Leavenworth list I (#108), 1860 RA 03 29 40, NPD 106 22.1) is "very faint, very small, round, gradually a little brighter middle". The position precesses to RA 03 36 06.9, Dec -15 54 06, nearly 13 arcmin west and slightly south of the galaxy listed above, but there is only on other object within a half-degree wide region centered on the NGC position, and it is almost certainly too faint to be what Leavenworth recorded, so despite the curious lack of any previous mention of the poor position, the idntification is probably about as certain as it can be, especially since NGC 1388, observed on the same plate, has nearly the same appearance and description, and also has an NGC position slightly south of its correct position, albeit nearly 12 arcmin more nearly 'spot on'.
Discovery Note: It is possible that Leavenworth's right ascension had an error of 1 minute of time, which would not be at all unusual for the Harvard observations, and would reduce the positional error to only about 2.2 arcmin southeast of the galaxy. That might also explain the lack of any previous mention of the poor position, earlier authors simply having assumed that there was such an error and not bothering to mention it.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 0.8 by 0.8 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1373 (= GC 735 = JH 2556, 1860 RA 03 29 51, NPD 125 42.4) is "extremely faint, very small, western of 3", the others being NGC 1374 and 1375.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.2 by 1.0 (from the images below). The northern "extension", which in older images appears to be an ejection of material from the galaxy, is actually a background galaxy (since it is partially obscured by NGC 1373, as shown in the images below). (The designation FCC 143 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1374 (= GC 736 = JH 2557, J Schmidt, 1860 RA 03 29 54, NPD 125 41.9) is "very bright, pretty large, a little extended, gradually much brighter middle, 2nd of 3", the others being NGC 1373 and 1375.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.2 by 2.8 arcmin (from the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type E⁺0. (The designation FCC 147 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1375 (= GC 737 = JH 2558, J Schmidt, 1860 RA 03 29 54, NPD 125 44.4) is "bright, small, a little extended, pretty much brighter middle, 3rd of 3", the others being NGC 1373 and 1374.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.8 by 0.65 arcmin (from the image below). (The designation FCC 148 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1376 (= GC 738 = JH 303 = WH II 288, 1860 RA 03 30 09, NPD 95 30.0) is "extremely faint, pretty large, irregularly round, brighter middle, mottled but not resolved".
Physical Information: Apparent size 2.1 by 1.9 arcmin?

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1377 (= GC 740 = JH 2560 = WH III 961, 1860 RA 03 30 29, NPD 111 21.7) is "faint, small, round, gradually brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.0 by 0.9 arcmin (from the images below). The site of a black hole that is ejecting gases at the poles of its accretion disk (an ESO ALMA image shows the gases, color-coded according to their velocity relative to us; for example, red if going away from us and blue if coming toward us).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1378 (= GC 5317, J Schmidt (d), 1860 RA 03 30 31, NPD 125 40.5) is "faint". LEDA lists NGC 1378 as PGC 5067582 (and as a double star), but a search for that designation returns no result.
Physical Information: Although the northern star appears to be a small galaxy in the ESO/VST image, Dr. Corwin points out that there are a large number of similar objects in the field that look exactly the same; so apparently they are all stars of a certain magnitude (about magnitude 13, give or take a magnitude) for which diffraction effects or seeing happen to make their ESO/VST images look like small galaxies. In a sense, this is the same problem that visual observers in the 19th century faced when trying to tell faint stars from nebulae, and led to many stellar objects being misclassified as nebular (and therefore, NGC/IC) objects.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1379 (= GC 741 = JH 2561, 1860 RA 03 30 43, NPD 125 54.8) is "a globular cluster, brighter, pretty large, round, gradually pretty much brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.2 by 3.1 arcmin (from the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type E0. (The designation FCC 161 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1380 (= GC 739 = JH 2559, Dunlop 574, Schmidt, 1860 RA 03 31 04, NPD 125 26.8) is "very bright, large, round, pretty suddenly brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 4.8 by 3.5 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 167 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.4 by 0.7 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 177 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Warning About Non-Standard NGC Designations: The use of letters attached to an NGC number should always be avoided, as it can lead to all sorts of confusion. It is not at all unusual for an NGC object to be referred to by its NGC number plus the letter A, and also using the letter B, and for non-NGC objects to be similarly confused. "NGC 1380B" is an extreme example of this poor practice, being a case in which a galaxy with a perfectly good NGC designation of its own is assigned a number and letter corresponding to a completely different object.
Historical Identification and Physical Information: Given the incorrect assignment of "NGC 1380B" to this object, see NGC 1382 for anything else.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1381 (= GC 5318, J Schmidt (3), 1860 RA 03 31 09, NPD 125 46.0) is "faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.2 by 1.0 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 170 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1382 (= GC 5319, J Schmidt (f), 1860 RA 03 31 09, NPD 125 37.8) is "faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.9 by 1.4 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 190 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.) Sometimes stupidly called NGC 1380B.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1383 (= GC 742 = JH 2562, 1860 RA 03 31 20, NPD 108 48.3) is "pretty faint, small, round, pretty suddenly much brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.6 by 0.8 arcmin (from the images below), counting the eastern and western extensions.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1384 (= GC 5320, Marth #90, 1860 RA 03 31 20, NPD 74 37) is a "nebulous 13th magnitude star".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 0.8 by 0.5 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1385 (= GC 743 = JH 2563 = WH II 263, 1860 RA 03 31 27, NPD 114 58.1) is "pretty bright, pretty small, round, gradually pretty much brighter middle." The position precesses to RA 03 37 27.9, Dec -24 30 21, well within the outline of the galaxy listed above, the description fits and there is nothing else nearby, so the identification is certain.
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 1385 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), NGC 1385 is about 65 million light-years away, in almost inevitable agreement with widely-varying redshift-independent distance estimates of about 25 to 165 million light-years, and not significantly different from the HST press release distance of 68 million light-years (which really should be written as 65 to 70 million light-years, since there is no way to measure such distances to the nearest million or so light-years). Given that and its apparent size of about 2.85 by 1.65 arcmin for the central galaxy and about 4.4 by 2.75 arcmin for its faint outer extensions (from the images below), the main galaxy is about 50 to 55 thousand light-years across, while its outer extensions span about 80 to 85 thousand light-years. The galaxy is considerably distorted by some kind of recent encounter with another galaxy (though which one is unknown), and as usually happens in galaxies that have had such encounters, it is full of star-forming regions full of hot, bright young stars which are heating and ionizing interstellar gases anywhere near them.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1386 (= GC 5321, J Schmidt (g), 1860 RA 03 31 29, NPD 126 28.2) is "faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 3.7 by 1.3 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 179 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1387 (= GC 744 = JH 2564, 1860 RA 03 31 35, NPD 125 58.6) is "a globular cluster, very bright, pretty large, round, gradually much brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 4.3 by 4.2 arcmin (from the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type SB0^-. (The designation FCC 184 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1388 (Leavenworth list I (#109), 1860 RA 03 31 40, NPD 106 23.0) is "very faint, very small, round, a little brighter middle". The position precesses to RA 03 38 06.6, Dec -15 55 19, about 1.9 arcmin southwest of the galaxy listed above, the description fits and there is nothing else nearby, so the identification is certain.
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 4230 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), NGC 1388 is about 195 to 200 million light years away. Given that and its apparent size of about 0.9 by 0.85 arcmin (from the images below), the galaxy is about 50 thousand light years across. The galaxy has a bright active center, so it is probably a starburst galaxy.
Discussion of Classification: In older, lower-quality images, NGC 1388 looks like and is classified as an elliptical galaxy; but the PanSTARRS image shows that it is very similar to NGC 278, which is classified as type SA(rs)b by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies, whence the classification shown in the description line above. As in the case of NGC 278, NGC 1388 appears to be surrounded by a large "dark" ring presumably filled with dust, but though such features can be used in discussions of the apparent size of a galaxy, they are not generally used to classify it. If they were, the galaxy would probably be classified as type (R)SA(rs)b(?).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1389 (= GC 5322, J Schmidt (h), 1860 RA 03 31 50, NPD 126 12.9) is "faint".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.9 by 1.6 arcmin (from the images below). (The designation FCC 193 refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.)

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1390 (Muller list II (#372), 1860 RA 03 31 50, NPD 109 30.0) is "very faint, pretty small, extended 260°".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.5 by 0.5 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1391 (Leavenworth list II (#373), 1860 RA 03 32 10±, NPD 108 48.0) is "extremely faint, small, round, gradually brighter middle and nucleus". The first IC lists a corrected position (per Ormond Stone) of RA 03 32 34, 108 45.0. The second IC lists a corrected NPD (per Ormond Stone and Howe) of 108 48.8.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.3 by 0.55 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification (or Misidentification?): Per Dreyer, NGC 1392 (Swift list VI (#15), 1860 RA 03 32 17, NPD 127 35.6) is "very faint, pretty small, round". The position precesses to RA 03 37 32.1, Dec -37 07 55, but there is nothing there (Swift's actual position was 1885 RA 03 33 13, Dec -37 30±, which precesses to RA 03 37 31.9, Dec -37 07 20 (as shown above), but there is also nothing there). It is conceivable that what Swift observed was one of the stars in the first image below, but the ± in his declination means that if he observed something in that field, there is no way to determine what it was. Corwin suggests that Swift made a one degree error in the declination, yielding a rough position (given the ± in the declination) of about RA 03 37 35.3, Dec -36 07 20, or about 2.8 arcmin west northwest of the galaxy listed above. If the galaxy were brighter Corwin's identification might be considered reasonably certain; but whether Swift could have seen such a faint object is uncertain (and even if he could, wouldn't he have called it 'most extremely faint', instead of just 'very faint'?), so though a possible candidate for NGC 1392 (especially since there is nothing else anywhere in the region), it it is just as possible that it has nothing to do with Swift's observation. In other words, although PGC 13383 is generally assumed to be NGC 1392, there is a very good chance that is not correct, and it is merely the best candidate out of one or none.
Physical Information: If lost or nonexistent, there is nothing to say. Whether NGC 1392 is PGC 13383 or not, that galaxy's apparent size is about 0.3 by 0.2 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1393 (= GC 745 = JH 2565 = WH III 451, 1860 RA 03 32 19, NPD 108 53.6) is "faint, small, round, gradually a little brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 2.3 by 1.5 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1394 (Leavenworth list II (#374), 1860 RA 03 32 20±, NPD 108 44.0) is "very faint, very small, extended 170°, suddenly brighter middle and nucleus". The first IC lists a corrected position (per Ormond Stone) of RA 03 32 48, NPD 108 45.0.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 1.5 by 0.55 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1395 (= GC 746 = JH 2566 = WH I 58, 1860 RA 03 32 25, NPD 113 29.3) is "bright, pretty small, extended, pretty suddenly much brighter middle".
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 8.0 by 5.5 arcmin (from the images below).

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1396 (= GC 5323, J Schmidt (i), 1860 RA 03 32 40, NPD 126 07.9) is "faint". The position precesses to RA 03 38 00.9, Dec -35 40 18 (whence the position shown above), but there is nothing there nor near there. Per Corwin, Schmidt's table is littered with errors, and in his original assessment of the entry, he chose PGC 13398 as the most likely candidate for NGC 1396; but in a September 2017 revision of his notes, he states that PGC 13398 is almost certainly too faint and has too low a surface brightness to be Schmidt's object, so although listing PGC 13398 as a possible but very unlikely candidate, he concludes that NGC 1396 is almost certainly lost or nonexistent.
"Discovery" Note: Gottlieb states that even with a much larger telescope than Schmidt used PGC 13398 was very difficult to see, and he is not convinced that Schmidt could possibly have seen the galaxy in question. As a result, this entry has been rewritten to deny the existence of NGC 1396, a separate entry has been created for PGC 13398, and all images showing NGC 1396 have been relabeled to show this galaxy as PGC 13398.

Historical Misidentification: See NGC 1396 for a discussion of why this object is usually misidentified as that NGC object.
Designation Note: "FCC" refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog.
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 715 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), PGC 13398 is about 30 to 35 million light-years away, in poor agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of about 55 to 65 million light-years, with a median estimated distance of about 60 to 65 million light-years. Most likely, the larger distance is correct, the galaxy is a member of the Fornax Cluster of galaxies, and the recessional velocity is contaminated by a large "peculiar velocity" (a random motion relative to its neighboring galaxies) that is typical of galaxies in a rich cluster of galaxies (the Fornax Cluster is the second-largest cluster in our neighborhood (only the Virgo Cluster being larger)). Using the median RIDE distance of 60 to 65 million light-years and the galaxy's apparent size of about 0.9 by 0.45 arcmin (from the images below), PGC 13398 is probably about 15 thousand light-years across.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1397 (= GC 756 = JH 305 = WH III 569, d'Arrest, 1860 RA 03 32 49, NPD 95 07.3) is "very faint, very small, a little extended." The first IC adds "is not h305, which was observed by Swift and Burnham in h's place (RA 03 34 34, NPD 95 07.0)." The position precesses to RA 03 39 46.3, Dec -04 39 51, only about 0.4 arcmin northwest of the center of the galaxy listed above and on its northwestern rim, the description fits and there is nothing else nearby, so the identification is certain.
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 5365 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), NGC 1397 is about 250 million light-years away. Given that and its apparent size of about 0.7 by 0.55 arcmin for the central galaxy, and of about 1.85 by 1.5 arcmin for the outer ring (from the images below), the central galaxy is about 50 thousand light-years across, and its outer ring spans about 135 thousand light-years.

Physical Information: Other than Corwin's position, the minimum of information obtained and shown here from NED, and the apparent size obtained from the images below (namely, about 0.75 by 0.3 arcmin for the brighter central region, and perhaps 1.4 by 0.4 arcmin for fainter outer regions that may or may not be real, given the "fuzz" in the images), there appears to be nothing known about this object; so whether it is in any way related to NGC 1397 is completely unknown.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1398 (Winnecke, Block, (Tempel V), 1860 RA 03 32 58, NPD 116 47.7) is "considerably bright, considerably large, round, very much brighter middle".
Discovery Notes: Although Tempel discovered this object in 1861 he did not publish his observation until 1882 (as a result of being made aware of Winnecke and Block's papers), and as a result Dreyer didn't give him credit in his NGC entry.
Physical Information: Apparent size of about 7.9 by 5.3 arcmin (from the images below). Used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type (R')SB(rs)ab.

Historical Identification: Per Dreyer, NGC 1399 (= GC 748 = JH 2569, 1860 RA 03 33 07, NPD 125 54.9) is "a globular cluster, very bright, pretty large, pretty suddenly much brighter middle, partially resolved (some stars seen)." (Per Gottlieb, "some stars seen" must be wishful thinking, as Hershel liste several galaxies in the region as globular clusters, and in 1915, Harold Knox-Shaw reported that it showed no visual resolution even with the 30-inch telescope at the Helwan Observatory). The position precesses to RA 03 38 28.6, Dec -35 27 22, well within the southwestern outline of the galaxy listed above, and the description fits, so the identification is certain.
Discovery Notes: Cozens' paper suggess that Dunlop's #332 (observed May 1, 1826) was actually NGC 1399, with an error of one hour in right ascension anad 8.3 arcmin in declination. However, this supposed identification is not generally accepted, so although it deserves mention here, if only as a warning, it is not reflected in the discovery information shown above.
Designation Note: "FCC" refers to Ferguson's Fornax Cluster Catalog. NGC 1399, even though a giant elliptical, is only the second-largest of the galaxies in the cluster, which is the second-largest cluster in our neighboorhood (after the Virgo Cluster).
Physical Information: Based on a recessional velocity relative to the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation of 1330 km/sec (and H₀ = 70 km/sec/Mpc), NGC 1399 is about 60 to 65 million light-years away, in good agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of about 30 to 115 million light-years, with a median RIDE of about 55 to 60 million light-years. Given that and its apparent size of about 9.4 by 8.2 arcmin (from the images below), the galaxy is about 170 thousand light-years across. NED lists the galaxy as having an active galaxy nucleus and also as a Seyfert Galaxy (type Sy2).
Classification Note: NGC 3199 is used by the de Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies as an example of galaxy type E0, but NED lists it as an E1 pec, and although LEDA lists it as an E0, its estimate of the apparent size (8.5 by 7.7 arcmin) corresponds to an E1. The apparent size measured from the images below also corresponds to type E1, so that is what is shown in the description line.