John Herschel discovered NGC 1745 = h2702 on 11 Nov 1836 and logged "faint, small, No 3 in a group of 4. Place estimated from No. 2." The four objects are NGC 1737, 1743, 1745 and NGC 1748. Joseph Turner sketched the group in Nov. 1876 with the Great Melbourne Telescope. See plate III.22 at www.docdb.net/history/texts/1885osngmt________e/lithograph_m_3_22.php. His sketch shows a number of stars involved with NGC 1745.

A small group of stars off the southeast edge of NGC 1743 is misidentified at NGC 1743 on the Hodge-Wright LMC Atlas.

600/800mm - 24" (11/18/12 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): fairly faint, fairly large nebulosity with a half dozen mag 13.5-14.5 stars involved, ~1' diameter. Located on the NE side of the NGC 1743 complex (OB association LH 5 and emission nebula LMC-N83), ~1.5' N of NGC 1748 and 3' NE of NGC 1743, the two main sections of the complex.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb