Andrew Cooper
Apr 29, 2023    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 153x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Yellow with a 9th magnitude companion visible 5" southeast, a delicate pair, Smyth describes the primary as white, odd as he usually ascribes more color to an object rather than less

Captain William Henry Smyth
Jul 2, 1834    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, on the hero's back, and 7° distant north-by-east from β. A7½, pale white; B10, sky blue. This fine object is 79 ♅ I., and from its class would seem to have been closer at its discovery than it is now; whilst the interval between the discs, as estimated by ♅., cannot be assumed at more than 2".5. When S. measured it, an inference was drawn that the distance had increased materially; and there were symptoms of an angular movement also. The great coincidence, however, between S. Σ. and myself, invalidates the conjecture, and stamps the fixity of both stars; these are the results for comparison:

    ♅.  Pos. 156° 36'  Dist. 2".50  Ep. 1783.10
    S.       163° 51'        5".39      1825.05
    Σ.       163° 56'        4".96      1830.57
   [WDS      160°            5".4       2020   ]

The investigations for the proper motions of this star, assign an almost imperceptible amount to the RA; but they are unanimous in giving it none in declination. The next rigid series of meridional observations will perhaps clear it off. [Hipparcos: -11.52mas in RA 30.12mas in Dec]

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

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