John Herschel discovered NGC 1922 between Nov 1836 and Mar 1837 with a 5-inch refractor and included it as object #374 his table of "Stars, Nebulae and Clusters in the Nubecula Major." Dreyer included the cluster to the GC Supplement as GC 5063. JH's position is 1.5' too far north. It's possible that James Dunlop's D 131 refers to NGC 1922, but there are several nearby candidates, so assigning it to NGC 1922 seems very speculative.

600/800mm - 24" (4/5/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 200x, this LMC cluster appears as a very small but high surface brightness knot, ~15" diameter with a tiny 8" core. A 3' chain of four mag 11-12 stars extends to the north and another chain extends to the east. A very close pair of faint clusters, S-L 385 and 387, lie 3' SW. The clusters are close twins - both soft round glows of ~30" diameter and separated by just 45" in an E-W orientation.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb