Andrew Cooper
Feb 26, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 80x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 7 Moon: 10%

Yellow, nice double with an 8th magnitude companion 2' west, a pretty pair

Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 2, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A wide triple star, between the head of Aries and the base of Triangulum; being the centre of the group mentioned as headed by 10 Arietis, above described. A 5½, white; B 10½, blue; and C 9, lilac. A is the apex of a scalene triangle, with B in the nf and C in the np quadrant, in a field otherwise barren; but immediately followed on the parallel of A, by 16 Arietis. A and C of these three stars are registered as H VI 69, thus:

    Pos. 281°15'  Dist. 89".47  Ep. 1781.99

Sir James South next measured it, and found

    Pos. 277°58'  Dist. 105".258  Ep. 1823.97
        [279°           106".00       2014  WDS]

which great discrepancy, John Herschel is inclined to attribute to the construction of his father's micrometer at that early period; the effect of which is to throw great uncertainty on the earlier distances of all the wide stars: "fortunately," adds he, "these are the least replete with interest." This object was evidently not scrutinized with rigour, since B was overlooked by former observers. Piazzi, in referring to C, says, "In eodem paral. 8" temp, circiter, præcedit alia 9* mag."

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

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