James Dunlop discovered NGC 5749 = D 206 = h3580 on 7 May 1826 and described "a group of 8 or 10 pretty bright small stars, in the form of a letter Y, about 5' long, parallel to the equator, with small stars in it resembling faint nebula." His position was off by ~8'. JH made the single observation "cluster VII class; p rich, loose, irregular figure, 8', stars 10 and 11th mag."

400/500mm - 18" (7/5/05 - Magellan Observatory, Australia): With a 27 Panoptic (76x), a group of three dozen stars are scattered in an irregular 8' region. The cluster includes a number of 12th magnitude stars with a mag 9.5 star at the NW edge. At 228x, up to 60 stars within this group were counted. There are no rich subgroups but the most distinctive group is a V-shaped or "wishbone" asterism of mag 11 stars with the prongs opening to the east. Eight of the stars are grouped into wide pairs of 30" to 40" separation. A mag 9.7 yellow star lies ~6' E of the cluster.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb