Andrew Cooper
Dec 12, 2004    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large cluster in a rich star field, about 100 members with an outline of a dozen or so brighter stars

Captain William Henry Smyth
Mar 3, 1836    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A loose cluster in the Galaxy, on the Unicorn's breast; 15° on a line from β Canis Majoris towards Pollux. It was discovered and registered by ♅. in January, 1785, and is No. 408 of his son's Catalogue of 1830. It is a region of stars extending far beyond the field, with the principal members from the 8½ to the llth magnitudes, curiously studded in pairs and triplets. Between these a certain glow indicates numbers of others still smaller.

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

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