Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 4, 1831    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

[Smyth's entry CCCXXI is clearly labeled υ1 Cnc while the coordinates given and description are that of 24 Cnc found 1° NW]

A neat double star, on the Crab's northern middle leg; where a line carried from Sirius through Procyon, and extended rather more than as far again into the north-east, will reach it. A 7, pale white; B 7½, greyish. This fine object is composed of Nos. 65 and 66 of Piazzi's Hora VIII., and it is 41 ♅. II. By a comparison of these measures:

    ♅.        Pos. 57° 51'  Dist. 4".00  Ep. 1782.09
    H. and S.      37° 47'        6".04      1822.12
   [WDS            53°            5".70      2019   ] 

it was inferred that a retrograde annual angular motion of -0°.514 had taken place. The subsequent observations, however, of Professor Struve, Sir John Herschel, and myself, afford no support to this supposed rotation; consequently some error must exist in ♅.'s register. And it should be remarked—albeit the process cannot demand implicit reliance—that a sifting of Piazzi's mean places for the mid-epoch, 1800, yields an angle =45° 30', and a distance of 5".2.

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

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