Andrew Cooper
Feb 25, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Blue-white, no companion noted

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 18, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A quadruple group, between the Ram's tail and the Fly, followed nearly on the parallel by a small dusky star. Three of these form Σ.'s No. 346, and the whole are of most difficult measurement. A is 6½, bright white; B 7, pale blue; C 15, blue; and D 13, lilac: the details of the latter two being, of course, meré estimations. It may be picked up by running the eye from 41 Arietis—the lucida of Musca—towards the Pleiades, in which direction it lies, at about one-third of the distance. A line led from γ Pegasi between α and β, in the head of the Ram, and carried nearly as far again, also hits this object.

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

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