Andrew Cooper
Nov 3, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 233x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6.5 Moon: 0%

A delicate and close binary found 8' northeast of ψ1 Ori, a 7th magnitude and 9th magnitude pair separated by 3"

Gaia EDR3 data shows very comparable parallax and proper motions for this pair

Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 10, 1835    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A close double star on Orion's right side; where a line from Orion's belt towards Aldebaran passes it at about 4½° below Bellatrix. A 8, silvery white; B 10, grey. This delicate object is 52 ♅ I., and was placed by Σ. in his First Class, "plurium maxima." There are few close double stars whose fixity for upwards of half a century has been more satisfactorily proved than this, the other measures being as follows :

    ♅.  Pos. 322°48'  Dist. 2".0±  Ep. 1782.76
    S.       320°48'        2".98      1825.06
    Σ.       323°13'        2".61      1831.81
   [WDS      321°           2".80      2017   ]

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

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