Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 21, 1832    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A delicate triple star, on the Unicorn's flank; it is about 11° to the south-east of Procyon, which is the last of the splendid host that adorns the three preceding hours. A 5½, light yellow; B 13, grey; C 9, pale blue, apparently the comes mentioned by Piazzi, Nota 316, Hora VII., "5s temporis præcedit ad austrum." A and C point to a distant star of the 8th magnitude; and there are several companions in the field, of which one in the nf is coarsely double. The two nearest of this group constitute 97 ♅ IV., and were thus registered:

    Pos. 105° 12'  Dist. 29".90  Ep. 1782.80
   [WDS  106°            33".20      2015   ]

The small star B escaped detection with the instruments of H. and S.; but their measure of C., together with the observations of Σ. on the three, compared with my own, indicate that no appreciable motion has occurred in half a century.

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

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