Andrew Cooper
Mar 2, 2011    Hale Pohaku, HI (map)
46cm f/4.5 Newtonian, Deep Violet @ 175x
Seeing: 6 Transparency: 6 Moon: 0%

Large, 7'x4' northwest-southeast, a bright core at the center of an oval halo

Andrew Cooper
Dec 4, 2005    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Large, bright, extended 6:1 north-south, very distinct core in a bright central condensation, no features in the halo

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

Large, oval, bright, with nucleus. D'A., illustris prœgrandis. E. of Rosse, like Androm. Neb. Dull object, 3-7/10in., in fine field with 37, 6 mg., 1½ sp θ. Several pretty pairs in neighborhood. L.P., spiral.

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

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

A bright nebula in the animal's right fore-leg, of a pale creamy whiteness, with several bright stars in the northern part of the field. It is large, nucleated, and elliptical, with its major axis lying np and sf, about 4'. It was first classed by ♅. in March, 1788, and is No. 584 of his son's Catalogue. Differentiated with θ Ursae Majoris to obtain its mean apparent place: it lies 1°½ west-south-west of θ Ursæ Majoris, and nearly on the line described by ι, θ, β, and δ of that constellation.

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

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