Notes:

 Taken with Arp 7 seen an hour earlier, these two galaxies demonstrate how surface brightness affects visibility. Arp 7 is 14.5m and tiny while Arp 263 is 11.4m but large. Arp 7 was easy and obvious despite being low in the sky while Arp 263 needs AV to see much at all, even though better placed. A 9^th magnitude star is superimposed on it and is a distraction. It is hard to trace the halo’s extent and edges. It is irregular and seems to wrap around the star.  A brighter knot could be made out to the N of the star and another smaller knot, which may be double, lies to the E.