Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 13, 1839    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A most delicate triple star, just above the heads of Gemini; where it is reached by a line from Procyon through Pollux, and extended 5½° to the north. A 5½, topaz yellow; B 13, bluish; C 12, dusky. The two principal members form 53 ♅. IV., but no set measures appear till Σ. entered it on the Dorpat Catalogue, with the following results:

Pos. 211° 72' Dist. 22".60 Ep. 1831.25
[WDS 215° 19".00 2017 ]

The individual C, in the np quadrant, is the star measured by H. and S., No. 83, which was reckoned the minimum visibile of the 7-foot equatoreal: the Rev. W. R. Dawes, however, has shown me a very neat diagram which he made of it in 1828, with a 3½-foot telescope under an erect eyepiece.

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

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