Joseph Turner discovered IC 4836 on 3 Aug 1883 with the Great Melbourne Telescope while searching for NGC 6769. This is the last entry in his eyepiece notepad. He measured an offset of 1 minute 56 seconds preceding NGC 6769 and 16' north and described it as "very faint, difficult to detect, no stars near, round, about 1' diam., gradually a little brighter in middle." His offsets lands 2.4' SE of IC 4836 and the description fits. This was Turner's last observation as just two weeks later on 17 Aug he passed away from complications due to heart failure.

DeLisle Stewart rediscovered IC 4836 = DS 574 on a plate taken at Harvard's Arequipa station on 13 Aug 1901. He reported "F, cL, iF, 2 st inv." Stewart is credited with the discovery in the IC.

600/800mm - 25" (10/16/17 - OzSky): at 244x; fairly faint to moderately bright, roundish, ~45" diameter, fairly low and nearly even surface brightness. At 397x, the halo is bit irregular and surrounds a faint stellar nucleus with direct vision. Located 24' NW of NGC 6769/6770/6771 in the NGC 6769 Group = LGG 427 and 42' ESE of the spectacular globular cluster NGC 6752!

Notes by Steve Gottlieb