Andrew Cooper
Nov 7, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A lovely binary with a 6th magnitude white primary 11" northwest of a 7th magnitude companion, 25 Psc is 36' east and 36 Psc is 42' southeast

Gaia DR2 data shows closely matching parallax and proper motion data for this binary pair

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 21, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star. A 6, pale white; B 8, violet tint. This fine object is H III 62, who describes it as being in "lino austrino" of the constellation; but by Sir J. Lubbock's map, it is on the south tip of the tail of the preceding Fish. A line from α Andromedae through γ Pegasi, extended about 6° to the south, strikes upon 35 Piscium.

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

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