William Herschel discovered NGC 6837 = H VIII-18 = h2055 on 4 Sep 1784 (sweep 256) and recorded "a small (forming) cluster of stars, not rich." His offset with respect to 61 Aql is 19 53 20 +11 43.4 (2000), just 12 seconds of time east of the small clump of stars described in my observation. JH simply noted "Viewed. In place by working list? It is a coarse straggling part of the Milky Way."

RNGC classifies the number as nonexistent. See Harold Corwin's comments.

400/500mm - 17.5" (6/24/95): this asterism only stands out reasonably well at 100x. Consists of roughly 15 mag 12-14 stars in a 4' group elongated E-W. There is a small rich subgroup bulging out on the north side in a semi-circular arrangement (better resolved at 225x). Listed as nonexistent in RNGC.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb