Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 30, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A close double star, on the sf extreme of the Fishes' kheït, or ribbon; and it lies on a line shot from ζ Piscium to α Arietis, at about a third of the distance. A 7, silvery white; and B 7½, white. Piazzi notes No. 209 as being H 84 V., but he evidently alludes to the distant companion in the np quadrant. This very fine object, resembling η Coronæ, is Σ's No. 186, and registered "vicinæ" in the Catalogue of 1827; it has since been thus measured at Dorpat:

    Pos. 64°72'  Dist. l".232  Ep. 1831.12
        [     74°           0".70       2019 WDS]

[HD 11803 has a known orbit of 165 years and a fairly high eccentricity of 0.72, it has thus completed over one orbit since discovery]

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

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