Andrew Cooper
Mar 17, 2004    Sycamore House, Tucson, AZ (map)
28cm f/10 SCT Nexstar 11

Large, 50 members in a 20' roughly circular area, two 6th magnitude stars frame the cluster above and below, one clump of the cluster just above the southern 6th magnitude blue-white star, an east-west clump at the center makes up the balance

Captain William Henry Smyth
Feb 13, 1833    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A neat double star, on the following boundary of a loose cluster in the Galaxy, between the Unicorn and the Greater Dog's head. A 8, and B 8½, both silvery white. This is a very rich field of stars, in the which is a brilliant oval mass, bounded by a sapphire-tinted 6th-magnitude star, in the sf quadrant, and the pair here measured a little north of it. ♅., who discovered this group in 1785, makes no mention of the latter; nor of two other pairs which are in the field, one above and the other below the object measured. A line from Pollux, passed by Gomeisa (β Canis Majoris) to nearly as far again, will find this object posited 9° east-north-east of Sirius.

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

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