Andrew Cooper
Nov 7, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 136x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Brilliant blue-white, a 10.4 magnitude companion visible 7" south, a delicate trio of 11th magnitude stars forms a 1' equilateral triangle 7' southeast

Gaia DR2 data shows the companion matching in parallax and proper motion

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 9, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star. A 6, silvery white; B 13½ pale blue; and they point to some small stars in the sf quadrant. This fine object, though numbered to Pisces, is astern of the leading Fish's tail, and near the wing of Pegasus; and 4°s —a little preceding the bright star γ Pegasi. From the delicacy of the comes it is so excessively difficult to measure, that I only mark a mean of careful estimations. It was discovered by M. Struve, and is No. 5 of his grand Catalogue.

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

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