Andrew Cooper
Nov 15, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Pale yellow, a 10th magnitude companion is visible 4" northwest

The 10th magnitude companion is listed as the B component in WDS. Gaia has no data on this companion while Hipparchos reveals that the companion shares comparable proper motions, this is likely a physically associated pair.

Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 21, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A very delicate double star on the Whale's under-jaw; between α Ceti and ζ Ceti. A 6, pale yellow; B 14, lilac, with several minute stars in the field. This beautiful object was discovered by Σ., and is No. 295 of the Dorpat Catalogue, where its measures are:

    Pos. 334°62'    Dist. 4".855    Ep. 1831.90
   [WDS  301°             3".60         2012   ] 

No inferences can be drawn on comparing our epochs, since my observations, from the difficulty of the object, are little better than estimations.

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