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

Pale yellow, a 10th magnitude companion is visible 22" southwest

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

A delicate double star, between the Waggoner's left arm and the Lynx. A 6, pale yellow; B 11, livid. This is the object described by BjL as the apex of an isosceles triangle, and classed 102 iv. The following are its registered measures:

    ♅. Pos. 216° 57' Dist. 23".50 Ep. 1782.85
    S.      221° 41'       21".60     1825.02
    Σ.      222° 38'       22".26     1831.11
   [WDS     224°           22".20     2016   ]

This star is certainly one of no easy measurement, but our results are sufficiently strong to warrant the inference of a slow spnf, or direct angular motion. A glance from the Hyades through Nath, at the tip of the Bull's left horn, carried about 22° into the north-east, will strike upon three small stars, of which the most northern is the one under discussion. This place will also be intersected by a line from Procyon through δ Geminorum; and by another from Orion's sword cluster, through the lowest star of the belt and Betelgeuze, and extended three times further north-east-ward. The alignment is therefore of very ready accomplishment.

[Gaia EDR3 data shows matching parallax and proper motion for the pair]

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

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