Andrew Cooper
Nov 25, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

White, a 10th magnitude companion visible 36" southwest, a wide double with the 7th magnitude HD 40335 3' northwest

Gaia DR2 data reveals that the closer 10.4 magnitude companion listed a B in WDS is a background star, while the 7th magnitude C companion is indeed physically assiciated with nearly the same parallax and similar proper motion.

Captain William Henry Smyth
Sep 9, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A small star, with a very minute companion, between Orion's left side, and the Galaxy. A 6, white; B 13, blue. This delicate though wide object is 100 ♅ V., who remarked that the small individual is "a point requiring some attention to be seen." His measures were:

    Pos. 205° 0' Dist. 37".25 Ep. 1782.76
   [WDS  206°          36".70     2015   ] 

A is preceded in the np quadrant by an 8th-magnitude star, whose angle is about 290°, with a distance of 178": this is 282 P. v. 59 Orionis may be picked up by a line shot from Rigel through ζ, the third star of the belt, and carried nearly 6° beyond.

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

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