26 Aurigae
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26 Aur
Σ 753AB, BD+30 963, HD 37269, HR 1914, WDS J05386+3030, SAO 58280, GSC 02404-01350, HIP 26536

Type  Star
Magnitude  5.406
Right Ascension  5h 38' 38.1"  (2000)
Declination  30° 29' 33" N
Constellation  Auriga
Classification  A2.5V+F6III
Observing Notes

Andrew Cooper
Oct 20, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 136x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A fine double, yellow, an 8th magnitude companion visible 12" west

Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 2, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, on the Waggoner's left shin; where a line from the cluster in Orion's sword, led through the middle star of the belt, through ζ Tauri, will hit it at less than 10° beyond the latter. A 5, pale white; and B 8, violet. This fine object is 64 ♅. III., and from an error in the original entry, was erroneously supposed to have changed its quadrant, in an interval of forty-three years, in an orbital motion npsf or retrograde. These are the measures with which mine are compared:
    ♅. Pos. 272°36' Dist. 13".41 Ep. 1782.68
S. 268°22' 12".32 1825.03
Σ. 268°02' 12".34 1828.61
[WDS 269° 12".40 2019]
Σ.'s epoch is a mean of four years, and should a retrograde motion be hereafter established, it will prove the delicacy of his measures, and the sterling talent of ♅.; for when he established those admirable epochs, there were no spider-line micrometers, &c.
― A Cycle of Celestial Objects Vol II, The Bedford Catalogue, William Henry Smyth, 1844
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26 Aurigae