Captain William Henry Smyth
Dec 24, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A very delicate double star, on the left shoulder of Pollux, and about 3½° to the south of its lucida. A 4, orange; B 10, pale blue. This elegant object was discovered by H., No. 427 of his Sweeps, with the 20-foot reflector, and estimated at about an angle of 240°, with a distance of 5"; it is one of the remarkable points to which he expressly calls the attention of astronomers, as forming a case where possibly the comes is shining by a reflected light. Difficult as the pair seemed to be, they were attacked by the Rev. W. R. Dawes, who with only a 5-foot telescope, obtained these results:

    Pos. 225° 10'  Dist. 6".25 Ep. 1832.16
   [WDS  243°            7".00     2021   ]

The large star is suspected of having a small movement in space, but the values assigned are not coincident; the best are:

    P....  RA -0".16  Dec. -0".02
    B....      0".00       -0".05
   [Hipparcos -0".02339    -0".05457] 

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

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