Andrew Cooper
Mar 23, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 61x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A pretty double with a pale yellow 5.9 magnitude primary and a 8.9 magnitude companion at 20" separation

Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 10, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A delicate double star, under the Unicorn's belly, where a line from β Canis Majoris, led through Sirius about 11° to the east-north-east, will meet it. A 7, yellow; B 9½, violet, a third star close to the south vertical, of the 14th magnitude, and clear blue. This was discovered by Σ., and is No. 1097 of the Dorpat Catalogue, with these data:

    Pos. 312° 12'  Dist. 20".20  Ep. 1832.15
   [WDS  314°            19".80      2020   ]

This object is close to the gap in the fanciful boundary which marks out Argo's northern limb on our maps; which gap cuts a narrow slice of about 13° long by 1° broad, right through the body of Monoceros, in order to catch up a star pertaining to Canis Minor, which Flamsteed, by some mistake, registered as 13 Navis. A and B point upon a distant telescopic group in the np.

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

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