10x30mm Canon IS (3/27/19 - Tasmania): faint, small, round. A couple of close brighter stars were resolved near the center. Located on a line with Acrux and two other stars.

John Herschel discovered NGC 4463 = h3395 on 2 May 1835 and noted "cl VIII. class; poor; scattered. The northern of 2 stars 8m taken." His single position is good.

600/800mm - 24" (4/11/08 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): at 260x this is a fairly small but fairly rich group with two bright mag 8.5 stars (HD 108719 and PPM 779024) oriented N-S and separated by 1.3'. The cluster is fairly rich along a curving E-W string that passes through the northern of the two bright stars. Scattered outliers increase the size to perhaps 6'x3' and include up to 60 stars. This cluster is located just 1.7° SSE of Acrux on the SW edge of the Coalsack Nebula.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb