DeLisle Stewart discovered IC 2140 = DS 302 on a plate taken 18 Dec 1900 at Harvard's Arequipa Station. He noted "eF, vS, ? eS Cl."

400/500mm - 18" (4/8/16 - Coonabarabran, 139x and 236x): fairly faint LMC cluster, large soft glow, 1.5' diameter, slightly brighter core. The cluster exhibited some mottling and a few stars were resolved around the edges. A mag 14.3 star is just off the ENE edge, and fainter stars were glimpsed at the south and west edges. Located 8.6' SSE of a mag 8.1 star. IC 2140, another LMC cluster, lies 39' NNE. NED classifies this object as a globular cluster, though it is not a classical globular.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb