Andrew Cooper
Nov 16, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A lovely binary, a 7th magnitude white with a 9th magnitude companion visible 5" southwest

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 18, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

Near the following parallel [from 61 Cet], at a distance of 4m 57s, on the angular line = 102°33', is the beautiful double star CD [HD 13179], which proved to be Σ.'s 218, of which the measures previous to mine were:

    S. Pos. 250°29'  Dist. 4".96  Ep. 1824.92
    Σ.      250°00'        4".78      1832.36
   [WDS     248°           4".90      2018   ]

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

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