Andrew Cooper
Feb 27, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 19%

A group of 8-11 magnitude stars centered on the red SAO152221, a poor cluster or mere asterism, nothing seen visually that could be confused for a cluster

Captain William Henry Smyth
Apr 27, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A tolerably compressed cluster at the back of the Greater Dog's head, principally composed of stars from the 8th to the llth magnitudes, of which the four principal form the letter Y; there are also some glimpse stars, but to no great extent. Yet to ♅.'s powerful "ken," it appeared to be 20' in diameter, when he observed it in February, 1785. It may be fished up by first finding μ, the object above registered; when it will appear in the nf quadrant, well within a degree's distance.

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

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