John Herschel discovered NGC 1767 between Nov 1836 and Mar 1837 with a 5-inch refractor and recorded as#123 in his preliminary catalogue of "Stars, Nebulae and Clusters in the Nubecula Major." Dreyer added the cluster to the GC Supplement as GC 5062.

400/500mm - 18" (7/10/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 218x, this compact LMC cluster appeared bright, small, round, ~25" diameter, very small bright core, overall high surface brightness. The cluster forms the western vertex of a triangle with NGC 1782 7.4' E and NGC 1772 9.5' SSE. Just 2' N, I noticed a very faint and small, round cluster, ~15" diameter (verified as Shapley-Lindsay 123). These clusters are part of LH 8, a large OB-association of stars. Emission nebula LMC-N94A is off the west side and N94B is close south, though no nebulosity was noticed unfiltered.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb