Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 11, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A close double star, just following the tail of Aries, at about one-third of the distance between δ Arietis and the Pleiades. A 8, pearl white; B 9, yellow. This exquisitely delicate object is in a line with two distant stars of the 10th magnitude in the sp quadrant, and there is another small one in the nf: it is Σ.'s No. 381, "oblongam suspicor," and was thus first measured by its discoverer:

    Pos. 93°7  Dist. 0".75  Ep. 1827.16
   [WDS 109°         1".10      2018   ]

The elongation is not immediately detected; and the focus was slightly distorted to examine the outline of the spurious disc. This, if well managed, is often of great use on such occasions. This star forms an angle of 28° from τ² Arietis, 45 P. Hora III., with a distance of 16'; but though so distant from each other, it is singular that there appears to be a slight movement in space, partaken by both, in quantities of similar amount and denomination.

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

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