Lamp found NGC 6654 with the 8" refractor at Kiel observatory while searching for comet Swift in September 1883. Unfortunately, the galaxy in Draco was discovered 12 days earlier by Lewis Swift in Rochester and 3 days earlier by Palisa in Vienna.
Obituary: AN 156, 159 (1901)
| D | N | NI | Y | M | D | Ap | I | T | Discoverer | Observer | Con | Type | S | Author | Title | Source |
| N | 6654 | 1883 | 9 | 23 | 8,0 | Rr | v | Swift L. 11.9.1883 | Palisa 20.9.1883 | DRA | SB0-a | 1 | Lamp, E. | Beobachtung von neuen Nebeln an der Kieler Sternwarte | AN [2544] 106, 381 (1883) |