Andrew Cooper
Nov 11, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 4 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale orange, an 8th magnitude companion visible 1' northwest

The Gaia DR2 dta shows the same parallax and proper motion in RA, but a notably different proper motion in declination, orbital motion?

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 14, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A wide double star to the north of the Whale's tail, over which an imaginary line from η Ceti to α Pegasi passes, at near 9° from the former. A 6½, pale topaz; B 9, violet-tint, —several other stars in the distant parts of the field. This object, though coarse, is pleasing, from its contrasted colours: it was seen and thus described by Piazzi: "Aliae 9* magnitudinis 3".2 temporis praecedit, ½ min. ad boream."

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

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