Andrew Cooper
Nov 13, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 136x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

White, a 7th magnitude 0.8" companion is not visible

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

Modest white, no companion noted

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

A triple star, on the back of Taurus, about 3° to the np of the Pleiades. A 6, white; B 6½, pale yellow; C 11, bluish. This is a fine and very difficult object, being Σ's No. 412, "vicinissimæ." A and C point to a comes in the nf quadrant, and constituted 88 ♅. IV., but Sir William did not observe that A was double. It may have opened since. His measures of A and C were

    Pos. 66°45'  Dist. 19".833  Ep. 1783.77

It was then re-examined by H. and S., No. 363, with these results:

    Pos. 56°06'  Dist. 21".055  Ep. 1821.97

and Σ., who first made it a triple object, thus registered it:

    AB Pos. 269°.92  Dist.  0".692  Ep. 1830.38
    AC       63°.02        22".407      1830.92
   [AB WDS  351°            0".80       2019
    AC       67°           22".40       2014   ]

Now the first two epochs exhibited so great an orbital change, in less than forty years, as to excite much attention; but the accordance of those of Σ. and myself, indicate some error of observation or entry. In this conclusion, however, Σ's angle for 1821.95, in the Dorpat Observations, is rejected; since it must be deemed rather an essay than a conclusive measurement.

[A quick check of the Gaia and Hipparcos data on SIMBAD shows C to be a background star while AB does appear to be a binary pair]

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

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