Andrew Cooper
Sep 28, 2020    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

Small, round, faint, about ½' across with well defined extents, no color noted, no central star visible

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

Small, round, no structure visible, no central star visible. Tried 250x, still no structure visible

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

Small, distinct, faint, bluish, planetary. Gaseous.

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

Captain William Henry Smyth
Aug 26, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A planetary nebula, of a bluish white tint, on the nape of Orion's neck; and about 3½ on the line from Betelgeuze towards the three small stars forming Orion's head. This is a small and pale, but very distinct object, with a faint disc, discovered by ♅. in December, 1785 and is No. 365 of his son's Catalogue; wherein it is described as "rather oval, and perhaps of a mottled light:" a power of vision beyond what my means afforded. It was differentiated with a Orionis, and is preceded by several small stars, the foremost of which is coarsely double and of the 8th and 10th magnitudes.

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

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