Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 13, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A delicate triple star, in the neck of the Bull, at about one-third of the distance from the Pleiades towards the Hyades, and slightly to the north of the line drawn between them. A 7½, white; B 8, grey; C 12, blue. This neat object was discovered by Σ., and is No. 479 of the Dorpat Catalogue: and it may, at some distant period, prove to be a system of more intricate combination, than the present results on short epochs promise. Though registered "triplex," the distant individual, C, appears to have escaped S.'s telescope, whose measures of A and B, the first I meet with, are thus:

    Pos. 127°41'  Dist. 7".208  Ep. 1823.98
   [WDS  126°           7".50       2020   ]

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

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