John Herschel discovered NGC 1747 = h2701 on 2 Nov 1834 and described as "A star 9th mag in the centre of a poor cluster of very small stars, 4' diameter."

400/500mm - 18" (7/9/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 128x and UHC filter, this LMC nebulous cluster appeared as a fairly large, low surface brightness glow, ~4' diameter encasing a mag 9.7 star (HD 32034). Without the filter the cluster consists of a number of mag 12 and fainter stars that huddle around the bright star. On the DSS, the emission component (N9) is a nearly complete large bubble of 5'-6' in diameter (open on the NE end) with the bright star in the interior to the southwest of center. The stellar component is part of association LH 6. NGC 1735 lies 6.5' NW and NGC 1774 is 17' ESE.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb