That thing is tough Wouter, more of it later.

When you speak about the IDSA, I had to add the use of the Interstellarum Deep Sky Guide (IDSG), an companion which support the pure atlas with sketches and observing descriptions. Of course the VIII Zw 388 is also included.
Here in Europe, Wolfgang Steinicke introduce this group in an article in the year 2000 (VdS Journal 1/2000) and published it also in a book around 2004 (Praxishandbuch Deep Sky). I had the honor to observe it through Jimi's 48-inch Barbarella.

All in all a very difficult group. I add the group in my "Deep Sky Challenge" project and got three observations with different apertures so far. My research gives brightness o the members under 18bmag, beside the 16.8bmag bright PGC 3110345. To sum up the (only German written) descriptions, the 27-inch only shows the two brightest members. To see the necklace I needed at least a 36-inch and the 48-inch. But even then, not all single galaxies were seen.


sketch: 48", 610x, NELM 7m0+, Seeing III
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