Andrew Cooper
Oct 22, 2016    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
51cm f/4 Newtonian, Obsession #004 @ 169x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Good sized, bright, 4' across, notable core, NGC770 visible 4' southeast

Andrew Cooper
Sep 27, 2003    Las Cienegas NCA, Pima Co., AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Good sized, extended E-W, a nice small companion to the south, dense core, no other detail certain

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 16, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A round nebula, closely following γ on the neck of the Ram, where it may be fished for on a line carried from α Trianguli 4½° below λ Arietis. It is large and pale, but brightens in the centre. William Herschel classed it in November, 1785, and considered it "not easily resolvable;" but still John Herschel, No. 181, distinguished it through a thick cloud. It lies among some small stars, the most conspicuous of which form a curve across the south part of the field. Its place was carefully differentiated from γ Arietis.

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

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