Object: Galaxy cluster ABELL 262, NGC 712 f. Constell: AND RA: 01h 53.1m (ngc) Decl: +36° 49' Epoch: 2000 Mag: 13.8m (p) Size: 1.3'x1.0' Type: S0 Observer: Jere Kahanpää Obs. place: Hartola, Finland Date/Time: 24./25.8.1996, 01.50 Telescope: N 205/1000 Magn: 133x Filter: Field: 22' NE Lim.mag: 6.0m Background sky: 2-3 Seeing: 2-3 Weather: +8 °C, no Moon. Brightness: 5 Alt: 50° Description: Faint but easy with averted vision. Strongly concentrated, size 1.0'x0.6'. There is a mag. 15 star in front of the galaxy. There should be several galaxies brighter than mag. 15.5 in the SE part of the field but no non-stellar objects were seen in the area.