John Herschel discovered NGC 152 = h2331 in the SMC on 20 Sep 1835 and logged "vF; L; R; vglbM; 2'." His position was 2 min of RA too far west, but the position was corrected in the GC and NGC.

400/500mm - 18" (7/10/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 128x this SMC cluster appeared as a fairly faint, fairly large, round glow, ~2' diameter. At 228x, the cluster had a fairly smooth, fairly low surface brightness with no core and no signs of resolution. NGC 176 lies 13' ESE. Located 1.2° SSE of 47 Tucanae.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb