Andrew Cooper
Mar 22, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Blue-white, 10th magnitude 12" companion not seen

Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 6, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A fine and delicate double star, in the Hare's left ear; where a line from Betelgeuze through ε—the middle star of the belt—and extended rather more than as far again into the south-west, will pick it up. A 4½, white; B 12, pale violet, with a reddish distant star nearly north, which is the one mentioned by Piazzi, Nota 11, Hora V. This is 67 ♅. III., and No. 655 of Struve's great Catalogue, by whom these measures are given:

    ♅.  Pos. 359°31'  Dist. 12".34  Ep. 1782.69
    Σ.       337°30'        12".81      1832.25
   [WDS      337°           12".00      1998   ]

Little of a decided character, however, can as yet be deduced from the observations of so difficult a star.

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

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