Andrew Cooper
Apr 19, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

White, no companion visible, Smyth notes a 7th magnitude companion at 15", this star is currently 0.4" away, carried there on the course of its 54 year orbit

Captain William Henry Smyth
Sep 9, 1838    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A very delicate double star, at the root of the Unicorn's tail; lying about 15° to the south-east of Procyon, on the line formed by that star and ζ Tauri, at the tip of the Bull's southern horn. A 7, pale topaz tint; B 11, violet; other stars in the field, of which the brightest and nearest is in the sp quadrant, near the vertical. This is one of Σ.'s discoveries, and was thus registered:

    Pos. 331° 32'  Dist. 18".20  Ep. 1828.71
   [WDS  320°            12".0       2011   ]

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

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