Andrew Cooper
Feb 22, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Brilliant white, a 7th magnitude 4" companion not visible

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

A neat double star, in the Waggoner's left wrist; where a line from Procyon through ε in Castor's knee, and 14° beyond, will find it, in the direction of the brilliant Capella. A 4, brilliant lilac; B 10, pale yellow; and lower down in the same quadrant, near the vertical, is a yellowish star of the 9th magnitude, which is that observed with A in the Catalogue of H. and S., No. 68, when its distance was found to be = 125". This proves it to be 34 ♅. VI., classed in September, 1780, but not measured; and A B are 89 ♅. V., thus registered:

    Pos. 286°.00 Dist. 35".30 Ep. 1782.68
 [WDS AC 300°          56".40     2019   ]

A comparison of the best meridional results detects a small proper motion in space:

    P....   RA +0".11 Dec. -0".04
    B....      +0".12      -0".ll
   [Hipparcos  +0".04363   -0".07379]

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

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