Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 16, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A delicate double star in a cluster over the Hero's left thigh, and about one-third of the distance between γ Persei and Capella. A 8, light yellow; B 11, pale violet. The large individual is placed equatorially between two small stars, and the secondary advances into the sp quadrant, forming a fine object. It was first registered by ♅. in December, 1788; being on the following boundary of Perseus, on a wavy branch of the Galaxy; and was described as containing one large star, but without notice of the pair here measured, which seem to have been first detected by Σ. No. 446, whose measures were:

    Pos. 252°70  Dist. 8".545  Ep. 1830.74
   [WDS  254°          8".80       2015   ]

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

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