John Herschel discovered NGC 1940 = h1146 on 23 Dec 1834 and described the cluster as "pB; S; R; bM. Has 2 st 9 and 10 mag following." His position and description is a perfect match. James Dunlop recorded D 212 on 6 Nov 1826, noting a "small faint ill-defined nebula." That's not much to go on and his position is 26' E of this cluster. JH didn't list a possible equivalence with NGC 1940 and I feel this identification is very uncertain. Still, Wolfgang Steinicke attributes Dunlop with the discovery.

300/350mm - 13.1" (2/20/04 - Costa Rica): faint, very small, round, 20" diameter. No resolution. Cradled by three mag 10-11 stars 1.2' S, 1.1' E and 1.5' E. Located 52' E of mag 4.8 Theta Doradus in the LMC.

600/800mm - 30" (11/5/10 - Coonabarabran, 264x): bright but relatively small knot, triangular shape, 30" diameter, clumpy with a few stars just resolved. Forms the western vertex of a small equilateral triangle with a mag 10 star 1' E and a mag 11.5 star 1' S. The mag 10 star has an 11th magnitude companion following at 27".

Notes by Steve Gottlieb