John Herschel discovered NGC 1967 between Nov 1836 and Mar 1837 with a 5-inch refractor and listed it as object #456 in his table of "Stars, Nebulae and Clusters in the Nubecula Major." His position is 1.8' too far northwest.

600/800mm - 25" (10/10/15 - OzSky): very bright, fairly small cluster, ~30" diameter. 8 to 10 stars are resolved, many in a string along the west side. A mag 13 star is at the east edge. First of 3 clusters with NGC 1984 5.4' ESE and NGC 1994 9' ESE. BSDL 1781 is a 1.5'x0.5' elongated group of stars just 2.5' NE. About 10 stars mag 13-14.5 in a N-S string were resolved. NGC 1967 is situated 9' SW of the NGC 1983 star cloud/association (LH 61).

Notes by Steve Gottlieb