NGC 1841 resides in the halo and is one of 15 bona-fide ancient GC's in the LMC. It is also the southernmost globular in the sky.

John Herschel discovered NGC 1841 = h2788 on 19 Jan 1836 and described "pF, L, irregularly round, vgbM, resolvable, 3' diameter. (RA open to much error for want of zero stars to be depended on)." Although his RA is off by 1 tmin, his position still matches the globular very well at this declination.

Shapley and Paraskevopoulos announced it was a new globular cluster, possibly extragalactic (credited to Mrs. Seyfert, based on a long-exposure plate).

in "Southern Clusters and Galaxies" (Harvard Obs. Bull., No.914, 6). The listed V magnitude of 14.1 is almost certainly too faint.

400/500mm - 18" (7/9/02 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 128x, this cluster appeared as a fairly large, round glow, ~3' diameter with a low surface brightness and just a very weak concentration. At 228x the cluster just starts to resolve into extremely faint 16th magnitude stars.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb