Andrew Cooper
Nov 13, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

White, an 11th magnitude 4" companion not visible

Captain William Henry Smyth
Sep 17, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A most delicate double star, on the np limb of Deltōton; and a line projected from γ Andromedee to pass between α and λ Arietis, will pass over it in about mid-distance. A 5½, bright yellow; B 15, dusky. This object was marked "difficilis" in the Dorpat Catalogue of 1827. It lies diagonally between two small stars, one of which, 10th magnitude, precedes it by 9s.0; and the other, a deep orange-coloured 8th magnitude, follows by 14s , with a little neighbour 2s farther off. Proper motions in space, but under conflicting values, have been assigned to ε; thus:

P.... RA -0".08 Dec. -0".10
Br... -0".10 +0".06
B.... +0".14 0".00
T.... +0".24 +0".06
[Gaia DR2 -0".017624 -0".008651]

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

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