[1] PG 0844+349 was first discovered in 1957 by the Tonantzintla Observatory who was searching for blue stellar objects (mainly white dwarfs) as quasar candidates.

Studying photographic plates that were taken with the 0.7 m Schmidt telescope, it was discovered PG 0844+349 has a Seyfert 1 spectrum, classifying it as a quasar.

Mexican astronomers Braulio Iriarte and Enrique Chavira subsequently listed it as the 951st object in the Tonantzintla Catalogue.

This shows that PG 0844+349 is in the phase of reflection-dominated state and its light bending scenario can be accounted for short-term ( ∼1000 s) spectral variability in its source.

One set of lines is a low-density (electron density ne  103-106 cm−3) ionized gas that has widths which corresponds to velocities of several hundred kilometers per second.

[14] According to observation from the ASCA satellite, researchers has found PG 0844+349 has a high state with a photon index of 1.98 and an Fe Kα line with EW ~ 300 eV.