Andrew Cooper
Jan 29, 2022    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Bright and obvious, rich, a 5' clump of stars in a rich galactic starfield centered on the 7th magnitude orange star HD34545

Andrew Cooper
Jan 4, 2015    Waikoloa, HI (map)
28cm f/10 SCT, NexStar 11" Gypsy @ 233x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

A handful of brighter stars surrounded by a haze of dim members centered on a bright orange star (mag 7.5 SAO57903), dim, rich, partly resolved, about 5' in diameter

Andrew Cooper
Jan 12, 2002    Las Cienegas NCA, Pima Co., AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Small, faint, one bright orange star at the center, about 20 brighter members and a very faint mist of dim members. Much brighter field stars scattered across field

Rev. T.W. Webb
May 19, 1885    Hardwick, Herefordshire, England (map)
94mm f/18 Tully Achromat

Splendid region

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

Captain William Henry Smyth
Sep 16, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A very delicate double star in a group, on the Waggoner's loins. A 7½, pale white; B 13, dusky. A fine field of small stars in a rich neighbourhood, with but little disposition to form. The most prominent member is a bright orange-coloured star of the 7.8 magnitude [HD 34545], forming a scalene triangle, with two others to the sf; near it, in the np quadrant, is the delicate pair above estimated [HD 34520?], while on the northern verge of the field is a triplet of l0th-magnitude stars.

This object, which is H.'s No. 350, was first pointed out by Sir William Herschel, in 1785, who describes it as a pretty compact cluster, "with one large star, the rest nearly of a size;" but he makes no mention of the strong colour seen both by his son and myself. It is about 7° on the line from Capella towards Bellatrix, or nearly one-sixth of the distance between those stars.

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

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