Andrew Cooper
Jan 31, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Brilliant pale orange, no companion noted, non-visual binary

Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 18, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A star on the left heel of Perseus; it is an insulated object, assumed as a pointer to the distant pair in the sf quadrant [HD 29096 and BD+40 999B], with Δ RA = 4s. A 5½, orange tint; B 7½, greenish; and C 9, lilac.

A line led to the north-west from the preceding star of Orion's belt through Bellatrix, and 35° further, strikes upon it; and it precedes the mid-distance of a ray shot from α Persei to β Tauri. The double star is 65 ♅. III., and there is another couple in the sp part of the field, of the 10th and llth magnitudes, at about the same distance from A as the other pair.

The results of the measures of B and C have been very accordant in distance; and also in angle, during the last twenty years, being thus:

    ♅.      Pos. 41°06'  Dist. 11".36  Ep. 1782.69
    H and S.      30°00'        12".46      1821.97
    Σ.            29°50'        11".71      1828.72
   [WDS           32°           11".70      2015   ]

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

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