Captain William Henry Smyth
Jun 28, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A close double star, between the animal's hind hoofs. A 5½, yellow; B 7½, pale blue. An attentive observer will pick it up by casting a line from Polaris between Capella and Algol, leading it about 9° from the former; and it will be intersected by another line, drawn from α Persei to δ in the head of Auriga. This exquisite object was discovered by Σ., No. 560, who recorded it "vicinæ;" but it is certainly wider and easier of measurement than those usually so classed by him. It may, however, be increasing its distance, albeit the mean of all my observations in 1836, afford no direct testimony of the fact. These are the results of the Dorpat observations:

    Pos. 311°40'  Dist. l".585  Ep. 1829.79
   [WDS  170°           0".80       2016   ]

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

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