Andrew Cooper
Aug 17, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

White, a 13th magnitude 1' companion not visible

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 17, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A most delicate double star. A 4, bright white; B 16, dusky grey. On the Lady's back, and just below the girdle; and it may be found by carrying a line from γ Pegasi through δ Andromedæ, and extending it 8° or 9° beyond, to the north-west. Registered by John Herschel as No. 1057 of his 20-foot sweeps: an object of extreme difficulty, and merely enrolled here to verify the power of the instrument; the small star, though repeatedly sought for, being only caught sight of on November 17th, when the large star was hidden behind a bar, and its place was estimated as above.

Following this on the parallel, at about 20', is a very neat double star, of the 8th and llth magnitudes, and about 12" apart: this is Σ. No. 104, and might have been considered an object of some delicacy, but tried after μ appears quite staring, and its colours, pale yellow, and green, are very decided.

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

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