Andrew Cooper
Dec 2, 2021    Waikoloa, HI (map)
20cm f/6 Newtonian, Cave Astrola @ 76x
Seeing: 7 Transparency: 7 Moon: 0%

A modest concentration of stars in a rich galactic starfield, faint, rich, 5' diameter, round, partially resolved, an 11th magnitude star just north of center otherwise the visible stars are 12th magnitude and up

Andrew Cooper
Dec 27, 2002    Sentinel, AZ (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Not very large, not very bright, sparse, basically not very impressive, about 30-40 stars arranged in a clumpy area, rich galactic star field

Captain William Henry Smyth
Oct 27, 1837    No. 6 The Crescent, Bedford, England (map)
150mm f/17.6 refractor by Tully 1827

A lucid but loose cluster of small stars— principally 9th to 14th magnitudes, preceded by a 6th— on the robe below the right hip of Cassiopea; and it will be caught up, at about one-fourth of the distance, on a line from γ towards ε. It was discovered by Miss Caroline Herschel, in 1783, and described by her brother as a "forming cluster of pretty com- pressed stars." It may therefore be of interest in a future day, on which account it ought to be rigorously and mathematically figured. Indeed, rigidly accurate drawings are among the desiderata of sidereal astronomy. The mean apparent place is differentiated from γ Cassiopeæ.

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

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