フラムスティードの記録にはない、注目すべき星をケフェウス座の頭付近に見ることができる。ケフェウス座10番星から約2′19″西に、約22°20′3″南にある。この星はくじら座ο星のように、大変美しく濃いガーネットのような色をしており、最も美しい天体のひとつである。すぐ近くにあるケフェウス座α星のような白い星に望遠鏡を向けた後にこの星を見ると、特に美しく見える。
A very considerable star, not marked by Flamstead, will be found near the head of Cepheus. Its right ascension in time, is about 2′19″ preceding Flamstead's 10th Cephei, and it is about 2°20′3″ more south than the same star. It is of a very fine deep garnet colour, such as the periodical star ο ceti was formerly, and a most beautiful object, especially if we look for some time at a white star before we turn our telescope to it, such as a cephei, which is near at hand.
—ウィリアム・ハーシェル、Philosophical transactions of the Royal Astronomical Society of London (1783), 257p[11][12]
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