Andrew Cooper
Feb 19, 2018    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 92x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 20%

A conspicuous cluster in the field with M38, faint, partially resolved, rich, about 5' in diameter, 30' south of M38

Andrew Cooper
Jan 4, 2015    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" Gypsy @ 233x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A small but pretty cluster near M38, compact, rich, partially resolved, quite distinct, about 5' in diameter

Andrew Cooper
Sep 30, 2005    Gila, New Mexico (map)
90mm F/12 APO Violet Haze

Small, rich, partially resolved, a few brighter members in a small patch of haze, M38 just visible at the edge of the field 32' north

Andrew Cooper
Jan 12, 2002    Las Cienegas NCA, Pima Co., AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Small, dense, fairly dim. just on the outer margin of M38, rather nice, about 50 members in a very tight group

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

D'A., very large cluster of minute stars arranged in curves. 11-13 mg. Ellison; 5 in., faint.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 16, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A minute double star announces this cluster, on the robe under the left thigh of Auriga. A 9½ and B 11, both grey. [this is probably Σ 705 made up of HD 281137 mag 10.1 and TYC 2411-525-1 mag 10.7 separation 18.4" very possibly a binary pair based on Gaia DR2 data with comparable parallax and proper motions, parallax also shows this pair to be a foreground object with respect to NGC 1907]

The object is a compressed oval cluster of 10th to 14th-magnitude stars, about 3' in diameter, trending sf and np, with a pair of l0th-magnitude to the north; in a splendid district of the heavens. It was discovered by ♅. in January, 1787; but the neat double star here estimated, is No. 699 of H.'s Third Series of Sweep Observations. It is about 12° down on the line which the eye projects from Capella towards Betelgeuze, and is there intercepted by another line drawn from Bellatrix through β Tauri, and extended 6½° beyond.

― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844

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