Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 30, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

The principal star of a loose Galaxy cluster, under the Unicorn's belly, and pointing to a double star in the np, on an angle 288° and RA 14s.5. A 7, faint yellow; B and C, both 10, and both dusky; the two latter point to a 9th-magnitude star preceding them by about 6s, and the field contains the cluster and its outliers, with several 8th magnitudes grouped near the centre. It was first registered at Slough, in 1786, and may be fished up by dropping a line from Pollux close by the west side of Procyon, and extending it 19° to the south, where it stands 12° east-north-east of Sirius.

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

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