John Herschel discovered NGC 3302 = h3274 = h3275 on 28 Jan 1835 and reported it again on 16 Feb 1865. His first observation reads "vF; S; R; 15"." and the later observation "eF; S; R." The two positions are very similar (after a typo was corrected for h3274 in his errata list), so I'm surprised he didn't combine the entries in the GC. But Dreyer combined the two GC numbers into NGC 3302.

400/500mm - 18" (3/13/04): faint, fairly small, elongated 4:3 NW-SE, 0.8'x0.6', weak concentration. A mag 14 star is off the NW edge. ESO 437-014 lies 14' E. Outlying member of the Antlia Cluster (ACO S636), though its redshift indicates it may lie in the background.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb