Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 2, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, between the animal's hind hoofs; and nearly in mid-distance between α Persei, and δ on the head of Auriga. A 7½, white; B 8½, sapphire blue.

The object consists of Piazzi's 83 and 84 of Hora IV.; and though the process of obtaining a position and distance from the observed RA and Dec. can hardly be expected to give a result absolutely exact, the Palermo observations merit grave consideration, and are therefore placed as the earliest epoch, to the conclusions of the principal astrometers, as thus shown:

    P.        Pos. 299°00'  Dist. 12".00  Ep. 1800.00
    H. and S.      306°26'        10".45      1822.05
    Σ.             307°05'        10".13      1830.57
    D.             307°10'        10".68      1832.90
   [WDS            309°           10".40      2018   ]

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

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