Andrew Cooper
Feb 22, 2020    Kaʻohe, Mauna Kea, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 127x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A beautiful star at the center of a cluster NGC2362, brilliant blue-white, a dim companion 1' east possibly a background cluster star

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 30, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A star with a companion, in cluster 17 ♅. VII., on the Greater Dog's back; where a line from Bellatrix through Sirius, and 12° beyond, will find it. A 6½, white; B 9, pale grey. The whole has a beautiful appearance, the bright white star A being surrounded by a rich gathering of minute companions [NGC 2362], in a slightly elongated form, and nearly vertical position. The latest investigations into the proper motions of this star, destroy the amount formerly attributed to the declination, and reduce that in RA to about +0".06 per annum. [Hipparcos shows a proper motion of -2.31 mas in RA and 5.02 mas in dec]

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

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