This binary star system was listed by Stephen Groombridge (1755 - 1834), whose «A Catalog of Circumpolar Stars» was
published posthumously in 1838, but its large
proper motion was not discovered and measured until 1860.
The high
proper motion of this star may have been first detected in a series of
proper motion surveys first
published in 1957 of 9,867 stars in the Southern Hemisphere and updated in supplements.