Andrew Cooper
Aug 25, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 136x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Pale orange, a 9th magnitude companion visible 7" west, 10 Tau is visible 11' south

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

A delicate double star, on a line with α Ceti and Rigel, and nearly one-third the distance: β Tauri and α Tauri also point upon it. A 6½, yellow; and B 9, pale blue. This is 45 ♅. III., who by measures in 1781.83, made the position angle = 234°27'; but H. informs us, that by a MS. note he finds it declared, that the observation is too small by 6° or 8°. The first measures, therefore, for future reference, must be those of S., No. 431:

    Pos. 225°12'  Dist. 5".812  Ep. 1824.02
   [WDS  273°           6".70       2016   ]

This object is between the Bull's chest and the northern branch of the Eridanus, in the part where the Abbé Hell (who also placed Herschel's telescope among the celestials) squeezed in his Harpa Georgii, to compliment a sovereign of these realms; having filched from Eridanus about thirty or forty stars, some of the 4th magnitude, for the purpose.

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

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