Andrew Cooper
Nov 3, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6.5 Moon: 0%

Σ 630 is a lovely double, HD 32273 is a 6th magnitude white with a 7th magnitude companion SAO 112341 visible 15" northeast

Gaia EDR3 data shows a mismatch in parallax (5.44mas for A and 7.11mas for B) and proper motion (-4.48/7.54mas/yr for A and -5.15/12.94mas/yr for B) indicating this is probably a line of sight double rather than a physical pair.

Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 2, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, on Orion's right knee. A 8½, silvery white; B 9, pale blue. These are Piazzi's No. 278 and 279 of Hora IV., where the mean places are given; but they were first micrometrically measured by Sir James South, with these results:

    Pos. 48°18'  Dist. 14".43  Ep. 1824.97
   [WDS  49°           14".4       2020   ]

which, compared with what I obtained, promise no great motion. He who has no equatoreal instrument, may fish up this object by carrying an imaginary line from Sirius over the cluster in Orion's sword, and about 10° beyond: or it may be sought near the mid-distance between Aldebaran and Arneb, the lucida of Lepus.

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

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