William Herschel discovered NGC 2335 = H VIII-32 on 10 Jan 1785 (sweep 356) and reported "a cluster of coarsely scattered stars of many sizes, pretty rich, more than 15' diameter." His position is on the west side of this open cluster.

400/500mm - 17.5" (3/20/93): 50-60 stars mag 10.5-14 in a 10' diameter. Mag 6.9 SAO 134220 is 10' NE of the core. In the center is a 1' parallelogram formed by four mag 10.5-12 stars with parallel sides oriented E-W and NW-SE. There are no dense areas (overall has a fairly scattered appearance) although the cluster includes several subgroups. A wide mag 12 double is on the north side. Located at the north tip of the huge emission nebula IC 2177.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb