10x30mm Canon IS (3/28/19 - Tasmania): fairly faint but easily seen, a couple of stars were resolved at the edges.

James Dunlop discovered NGC 3330 = D 355 = h3287 on 29 Apr 1826 and described "a triangular group of small stars resembling faint nebula, with several stars in it of some considerable magnitude." This was the first object he discovered with his homemade 9-inch speculum reflector after recording a few known objects. JH recorded on 6 Apr 1834 "The chief star (9th mag) of a poor cluster of 20 or 30 stars."

300/350mm - 13.1" (2/18/04 - Costa Rica): at 105x, ~30 stars mag 10-13 in a 6'x3' group elongated N-S. Three brighter mag 10 stars are on the south side but the main group of stars is on the north side including another mag 10 star. This was an easy object in my 10x30 IS bincoculars and was partially resolved in the 9x50 finder.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb