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

41 Aur is a lovely binary of nearly equal magnitude, 41Aur A is white with a blue-white companion, 41Aur B visible 7" north

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 19, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, in front of the Waggoner's chin; where a line from β Tauri, on the tip of the Bull's northern horn, led through β Aurigae, and carried 4° beyond, strikes upon it. A 7, silvery white; and B 7½, pale violet, and it probably partakes of the proper motion assigned to A:

    P....   RA -0".15  Dec. -0".17
    B....      +0".18       -0".12
    T....      -0".23       -0".24
   [Hipparcos  +0".01477    -0".05665]

This pair is Piazzi's Nos. 333 and 334, Hora V., as well as 82 ♅.III.; and there appears no appreciable motion in the lapse of 55 years.

    H.     Pos. 350° 00'  Dist. 8".53  Ep. 1782.85
    P.          350° 00'        9".00      1800.00
    H. and S.   353° 16'        8".81      1822.53
    Σ.          353° 07'        7".99      1830.31
   [WDS         358°            7".50      2019   ]

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

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