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

Brilliant blue-white, no companion noted, beautiful field

Captain William Henry Smyth
Nov 3, 1831    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A wide triple star, on Procyon's neck; rather better than 4° to the north-north-west of its lucida, where its magnitude readily points it out. A 3, white; B 12, orange; C 10, flushed; the last is coarsely double with one of the same magnitude, and there are other stars in the field, of which the white one preceding is that alluded to by Piazzi, "Alia 8æ magnitudin. prsecedit 43" temporis, 2½' circiter ad boream." The large individual is named Gomeisa, from al-ghomeïsá, watery-eyed; and it is Al-Mirzam, one of the "roarers," mentioned under β Canis Majoris.

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

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