Andrew Cooper
Jan 29, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Pale yellow, a 13th magnitude 30" companion not visible

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 18, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A star with a distant companion, on the Waggoner's loins; and rather more than 6° down a line drawn from Capella to Bellatrix. A 5, pale yellow; B 9½, plum colour.

This object is 22 ♅. V., but as he described it merely "—multiple, —2 within 30," it is impossible to identify them in the group of small stars of the galaxy wherein they are placed. I therefore measured to B, although there were two or three minute stars nearer, because it is the second of Sir James South's No. 472; and a little coarsely-double star about 3m in the nf quadrant, not far from the parallel, is his C; which are thus registered:

    Pos. AB 34°36'  Dist. 102".14  Ep. 1825.10
         AC 81°31'        193".94
   [WDS  AD 349°          213".10      2015    was AB
         AE  31°          193".9       2015    was AC ]

λ Aurigae has a very sensible movement in space, which, though it escaped Piazzi, has had the following values assigned to it:

    B....  RA +0".71  Dec. -0".66
    A....     +0".68       -0".67
   [Gaia DR2  +0".520581   -0".664826]

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

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