William Herschel discovered NGC 1883 = H VII-34 on 11 Dec 1786 (sweep 645) and recorded "a cluster of vF and vS stars, pretty compressed but not very rich, irr F, about 3' diameter." His position is just off the north side of this cluster. The declination in Lynga, RNGC and Sky Catalogue 2000.0 is 4' too far N.

300/350mm - 13.1" (12/22/84): about a dozen very faint stars mag 13.5 and fainter over unresolved haze. Located 1.5? NE of Capella.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb