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

A pretty double with a yellow primary and an orange companion 3.6/6.2 96" north

Captain William Henry Smyth
Jan 22, 1832    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A wide triple star, in a barren field, in the Hare's left hind foot; where a line passed from δ Orionis, the preceding star of the belt, through the sword cluster, and carried 16° beyond, hits upon it. A 4, light yellow; B 6½, pale green; C 13, dusky; and a fourth star, of the 12th magnitude, following at ΔRA = 21s. This poor object was only examined because, under 50 ♅. V., we are told there is a companion within 40' of A, of course meaning forty seconds. This escaped my search, and also that of the Astronomer Royal, who obligingly examined it at my request, and forwarded me Mr. Main's diagram, which is identical with my own. B is mentioned hy Piazzi in the notes to Hora V., No. 219; and by reducing his RAs and Decs, the results agree very fairly, epoch considered, with the micrometrical measures above registered:

    Pos. 348° 0' Dist. 95".8 Ep. 1800

On the whole, though γ Leporis is of a fine lustre, I have little doubt of B and C being the stars which ♅. classed. The proper motion of A has been thus stated:

    P.... RA  -0".42 Dec. -0".40
    B....     -0".29      -0".35
    A....     -0".34      -0".39
   [Gaia EDR3 -0".29175   -0".36852]

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

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