Andrew Cooper
Oct 25, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 25%

Blue-white, no companion noted, non-visual binary, Cursa is 30' southeast and 68 Eri is 32' northeast

Andrew Cooper
Mar 24, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

White, no companion noted

Captain William Henry Smyth
Jan 4, 1832    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A coarse double star, close to the shin of Orion, where it will be seen closely preceding and north of β Eridani. A 6, white; and B 11, lilac; these two nearly pointing upon a third small star, near the south vertical, and there are other stars in the field. It appears on the Dorpat Catalogue, No. 642, but without measures or description: and in the edition of 1837, has the "rej" against it.

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

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