John Herschel discovered NGC 1772 = h2722 on 23 Dec 1834 and recorded "pB, S, R, 40", resolvable, preceded by a hook of stars 12th mag." On a second sweep he recorded "an irregularly round, compact cluster, bM, 40" diameter." Finally on a third observation he logged "pF, R, resolvable, among numberless stars." Robert Innes, observing with the 26.5-inch refractor at the Union Observatory in 1926, described a "cluster of stars, 12 to 15 mag, irregular shape, 90" across."

400/500mm - 18" (7/10/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): fairly bright, fairly small, irregularly round, 40"x35". Sharply concentrated with a bright, 15" core. Three faint stars are resolved on the south side of the cluster and one on the north side. Forms the southern vertex of a triangle with LMC clusters NGC 1767 9.5' NNW and NGC 1782 11' NNE, which are part of stellar association LH 8.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb