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

Blue-white, no companion noted

Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 21, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

An elegant and extremely delicate triple star, on Orion's right instep; where it is the vertex of an obtuse-angled triangle, formed with Rigel and β Eridani. A 4, pale orange; B 15, blue; and C 12, lilac; the three lie nearly in a line sp and nf, between two brightish stars at either end of the parallel. This is 25 ♅. V.; registered October, 1780, but without measures; and it is No. 2259 of H.'s 20-foot Sweeps, who thus records it:

    Pos. AB 250°.4  Dist. AB 18".0  [WDS shows 31.3" in 1868]
         AC  63°.8        AC 18".0  [WDS shows 36.0" in 1868]
   [WDS  AB 251°             33".0  Ep. 2011
         AD  61°             35".40 was AC  ]

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

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