Andrew Cooper
Mar 21, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 47x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Orange, no companion noted

Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 21, 1831    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A wide triple star on the boundary of the Lesser Dog, and 6° to the south-east of the star Procyon, near where the beforementioned section or slice of Argo penetrates through the Unicorn. A 6, pale white; B8, bluish; C 9, blue. This object is 84 ♅. VI., and the two nearest were thus registered:

    Pos. 63° 36'  Dist. 65".46  Ep. 1782.11

The third star was stated to form an angle with the other two, in the sf, a little longer than a rectangle. The three were measured by H. and S.; and from a comparison of the whole, I am not inclined to impute any appreciable motion; their results were:

    Pos. AB  65° 42'  Dist.  76".021  |  Ep. 1822.15
         AC 152° 50'        112".168  |
   [WDS  AB  84°            100".10          2015   ]
   [     AC 147°            134".90          2017   ]

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

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