Andrew Cooper
Aug 18, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Orange, a 9th magnitude companion clearly visible 8" east

Andrew Cooper
Aug 15, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale orange, a 9th magnitude 8" companion clearly visible in moments of good seeing

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 18, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A double star, in the Whale's eye, about 3° from γ Ceti, slightly preceding a line from γ towards β Arietis, the middle star of the Ram's head. A 4½, pale yellow; B 15, blue. This very delicate object is one of those marked by Σ. "difficilis;" and not without reason, for the comes can only be seen by glimpses, on ardent gazing; and its details are therefore mere estimations. It is followed exactly on the parallel, Δ RA=25s, by a dusky star of the llth magnitude, Σ.'s results are:

    Pos. 83°.30  Dist. 7".725  Ep. 1831.92
        [80°           8".40       2011 WDS]

The proper motions in space attributed to A are :

    P.... RA -0".19  Dec. -0".13
    B....    -0".08       -0".03
   [Gaia DR2 -0".026652   -0".026674]

[Gaia DR2 data shows matching values for proper motion and parallax, this is a physical pair.]

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

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