Andrew Cooper
Nov 15, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale yellow, a 9th magnitude companion visble 15" southwest

Gaia DR2 data shows comparable parallax and proper motions, this is likely a physical pair

Andrew Cooper
Jul 30, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale yellow, a 9.5 magnitude companion visible 15" west

Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 3, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, close to the foregoing, in the vacant space between the Whale's back and the ribbon of Pisces; being exactly in mid-distance between γ Pegasi and ζ Ceti. A 6½, pale topaz; B 9½, lilac tint.

This fine object is H IV 83, whose measures on its first registry were: Pos. 255°24' Dist. 17".03 Ep. 1782.75 It was next examined by H. and S., thus: Pos. 255°21' Dist. 15".756 Ep. 1821.87 whence there would appear to be no material change in upwards of half a century; so that the present conclusion is, that the connexion is merely optical. The distance between them, therefore, on the assumption of a scale by their respective magnitudes, must be wonderfully vast.

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

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