Captain William Henry Smyth
Sep 13, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star [SAO 11974 and V985 Cas], in a cluster near the Lady's right knee [NGC 663]; and it may be found by drawing a line from α through δ, and carrying it about 2½° further, A 9, and B 10½, both bluish. This object is in an elegant field of large and small stars, from a certain degree of brilliance down to infinitesimal points; but without any disposition to form, except that the larger members incline towards a parallelogram in which there are several coarse pairs. In the sp quadrant of this cluster, is a fine ruby star of the 8th magnitude [Two candidates about 4' apart with color indexes of 2.2, BD+60 327 mag 8.2 M0 or V589 Cas mag 8.9 M3].

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

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