Andrew Cooper
Jan 17, 2004    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Beautiful planetary, almost perfectly circular halo around the easily visible central star, hints of linear structures in the halo, no color noted.

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)

Planetary: small and dim. E of Rosse sees a bright ring, with 14 mg. in central darkness. Gas.

― Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, T. W. Webb, 1917

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 16, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A bright planetary nebula, of a bluish white tint, about 60" in diameter, on the hind flank of the Camelopard. It is in a rich field of small stars, and was first registered by ♅. in November, 1787, as an object whose light was uniform and definition abrupt. It is a curious body; and was watched under the total lunar eclipse of the 13th of October, 1837, being well seen during that shadowy obscurity which an Italian would call un tenebroso orrore.

Closely following the north vertical of this object, and about half a degree from it, is a beautiful and brilliant field of stars, the compact portion of which is 47 ♅. VII., discovered in 1787 [NGC 1502]. Many of the components of this group are in pairs, the brightest of which is a neat double star, both of the 7th magnitude, and decidedly red. [There are no decidedly red stars encompassed by NGC 1502, the 7.5 magnitude red carbon star UV Cam lies between NGC 1501 and NGC 1502 and a little preceeding]

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

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