Andrew Cooper
Feb 26, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" GyPSy @ 80x
Seeing: 5 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A beautiful double with matched blue-white stars about 10" apart, 4.5/4.6 magnitude, very rich galactic starfield

Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 22, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, in the corymbus of the Argo's ουρα, or poop; where it may be picked up by a line from the lowest star in Orion's belt, through Sirius, and 19°, or nearly as far again, beyond. A and B, both 6½, and both topaz-yellow; but the tinge which it exhibited under observation, may be owing to its low altitude. This is a tolerably fair object, and is composed of Piazzi's Nos. 175 and 177 of Hora VII., a reduction from whose mean apparent places affords another gratifying proof of the excellence of his meridian observations:

    Pos. 325° 0'  Dist. 10".5  Ep. 1800
   [WDS  318°            9".90     2016]

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

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