* Astronomy

NGC 1816 (also ESO 85-SC37) is a magnitude +9.0 open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud located 170,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflecting telescope at Feldhausen, Claremont, Cape Town, on the 2nd January 1837

Right Ascension 05 03 50.8 Declination -67° 15' 39"