Hello Steve

Very much so. In my notes for the night (below average transparency, faintest star visible from my backyard, mag. +5.7) I wrote: “NGC 1265 is pretty bright, with an intense star-like core embedded in a low surface brightness disk. It is round and north of a mag. 11 field star. IC312 is faint but consistently seen as an irregularly round disk, a little brighter to the middle.” So I suppose the star-like core was actually a star. It certainly appeared so... I passed over it a couple of times looking for NGC1265 before I detected the disk. That’s why I inquired about a possible supernova, though at the galaxy’s distance, a typical supernova would have been a few magnitudes fainter than the star I saw.

The faintest of the Abell 426 galaxies I’ve been able to see so far is PGC 12358, immediately east of NGC 1270. The NED quotes a magnitude of 16.69. 137 galaxies is impressive indeed...