William Herschel discovered NGC 1762 = H III-453 on 8 Oct 1785 (sweep 462) and logged "vF, vS, 240 confirmed it." Caroline Herschel made an error in reducing his offset in RA and his published position was 10 tmin of RA too far west. Coincidentally, that placed it close to UGC 3198. When John Herschel observed this galaxy, he equated his h335 with H. III-453. JH sorted out the mistake when compiling the GC. The NGC dec was 3' too far north.

300/350mm - 13.1" (11/29/86): faint, small, oval ~N-S. A mag 13 star is superimposed on the east side.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb