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

White, a 10.6 magnitude companion visible 28" east

The Gaia DR2 data shows significantly divergent parallax and proper motions for this pair, this is an optical double only

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 14, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A delicate double star, nf γ Pegasi about 4°. A 7, silvery white; and B 13, cerulean blue. Though quartered in Pisces this very deli- cate object is actually between the wing of Pegasus, and the right hand of Andromeda: and this, though a minor one, is among the many errors calling for a reform of the constellations.

It is followed nearly on the parallel by a yellow star of the 7.8 magnitude, which must be the one alluded to by Piazzi, in Note O. 92, though the distance is nearer 50 than 30 seconds. The companion to A is so minute as to vanish under the slightest illumination, the details are therefore merely estimated, —but with great care. It was discovered by Σ., whose measures with the great Dorpat telescope are: Pos. 107°42' Dist, 13".26 Ep. 1828.74

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

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