[3] Julius Schmidt was then director of the National Observatory of Athens and he was inspecting the Cape catalogue nebulae with a 6 ft refractor.

The publication of their discovery was delayed by 10 years and was published in 1876 with the work Über einige im Cape-Catalog fehlende Nebel.

The source of nuclear activity in galaxies is suggested to be material accretion around a supermassive black hole in the galactic centre.

The first has low velocity dispersion (approximately 90 km/s) and is identified as gas rotating in the galaxy disk.

Ionised gas is detected north and south of the nucleus in a position similar to the radio emission but a comparison with optical images shows no direct association.

[11] A linear feature has also been observed by Hubble Space Telescope in [O III] and [N II] + Hα with similar characteristics as the radio one.

[7] No trace of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) emission has been detected in mid-infrared observations of the central 20 pc of NGC 1386, while there is mild silicate absorption, which may be associated with a dust torus around the AGN.

[14] NGC 1386 has a corona with faint diffuse soft X-ray emission that appears distorted at its outer parts.