Andrew Cooper
Nov 2, 2019    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 39%

A large modest clump of stars, distinct in the field, coarse, fully resolved, a couple dozen stars across a 10' area

Andrew Cooper
Nov 18, 2017    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6.5 Moon: 0%

A poor cluster, an oval area about 5' x 10' in extent with a notable concentration of stars, fully resolved, poorly detached

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Wide cluster, h. 13-15 mg., a little following NGC869.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 12, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

An irregular but pretty rich cluster, on the weapon arm of Perseus, and in a fine vicinity. It was discovered by H., and consists of individuals from the 9th to the 15th magnitudes, preceded by some largish outliers, one of which is of a red tinge [HD 14398?]. The mean apparent place depends, by differentiation, on α Persei; and it may be fished up about 10° np that star, nearly in the mid-distance of a line shot from Polaris to the west of Algol. A 7th magnitude in the np quadrant is the avantcourier of this field [HD 15497], and three of the llth magnitude form so correct a line in the nf as to attract attention.

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

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