John Herschel discovered NGC 2677 = h527 on 17 Mar 1831 (sweep 334) and noted "The faintest object imaginable, and discerned with the utmost difficulty. Sky perfectly clear." His position is an excellent match with CGCG 090-021 = PGC 24821 although the RA is marked uncertain. He assumed he found his father's H. II-48 although Dreyer noted in his 1912 "Scientific Papers of William Herschel" that H. II-48 = H II-80 = NGC 2672 and H II-48 was not NGC 2677.

400/500mm - 17.5" (1/28/89): extremely faint and small, round, low even surface brightness. In a group with NGC 2667, NGC 2672, NGC 2673.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb