NGC 1916 is one of 15 bona-fide ancient GC's in the LMC. It resides within the LMC's central bar, ~10' S of the large NGC 1910 complex, which contains S Doradus.

John Herschel discovered NGC 1916 = h2829 on 3 Nov 1834 and described "vB; vS; R; gbM; 20"." His position (measured on 3 sweeps) is accurate. Shapley and Lindsay ("A Catalogue of Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud", Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol. 6, 1963) give a diameter of 60'' and comment "NGC 1916, very condensed centre, unresolved." The RA has a misprint 1 tmin too far west and this error was copied into the RNGC.

600/800mm - 24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x, this LMC globular was very bright, moderately large, round, symmetric, 45" diameter. The center was sharply concentrated with a small blazing core! NGC 1903, a showpiece globular, lies 8' NW.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb