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Edward Emerson Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923) was an American observational astronomer who joined the staff of Lick Observatory in...

History Observational Comets Nineteenth Century

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Max Wolf

Max Wolf was a German astronomer who helped establish photography as a systematic method for discovering and studying fa...

Germany Photography 19TH Century Asteroids

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Heinrich Olbers

Heinrich Olbers was a German astronomer and physician who practiced medicine by day while making significant contributio...

German 19TH Century Comets Asteroids

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Margaret Huggins

Margaret Lindsay Huggins was an Irish-born British astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astronomical spectroscopy. W...

19TH Century Observational Spectroscopy

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Edward Barnard

Edward Emerson Barnard was an American astronomer renowned for his observational work in the late 19th and early 20th ce...

American 19TH Century Observational Comets

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Jean-Luc Margot

Jean-Luc Margot is a Belgian-born astronomer and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His rese...

Modern Observational Radar Planetary

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Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers was a German astronomer and physician who made significant contributions to celestial s...

Medicine 19TH Century Comets Asteroids

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David Levy

David Levy is a Canadian amateur astronomer and science writer best known for co-discovering Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 alon...

Canadian Observational Twentieth Century Comets

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William Parsons (Lord Rosse)

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), was an Irish astronomer who built the 72-inch reflecting telescope calle...

Telescope 19TH Century Observational Irish

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Asaph Hall

Asaph Hall III was a 19th-century American astronomer primarily associated with the United States Naval Observatory in W...

American 19TH Century Observational Planetary

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Giuseppe Piazzi

Giuseppe Piazzi was an Italian astronomer who discovered Ceres on January 1, 1801, while working at the Palermo Observat...

Italian 19TH Century Observational Asteroids

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Johann Encke

Johann Franz Encke was a German astronomer who lived from 1791 to 1865 and worked in observational astronomy and celesti...

German 19TH Century Observational Celestial Mechanics

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Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers was a German astronomer and physician who lived from 1758 to 1840. He discovered the asteroids P...

German Cosmology 19TH Century Comets

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Alan Hale

Alan Hale is an American astronomer best known for co-discovering Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995 with Thomas Bopp. The discover...

Contemporary Observational Comets Hale Bopp

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Norman Pogson

Norman Pogson was a British astronomer whose work helped establish the modern system for comparing the apparent brightne...

19TH Century British Observational Photometry

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Annibale de Gasparis

Annibale de Gasparis was an Italian astronomer associated with the Capodimonte Observatory in Naples. Between 1849 and 1...

Italy 19TH Century Observational Asteroids

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Lewis Boss

Lewis Boss was an American astronomer who lived from 1846 to 1912 and directed the Dudley Observatory in Albany, New Yor...

American 19TH Century Observational Star Catalog

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Dorothea Klumpke

Dorothea Klumpke was an American-born astronomer who worked in France and became the first woman to receive a doctorate...

American 19TH Century Observational Pioneering Woman

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Yuji Hyakutake

Yuji Hyakutake was a Japanese amateur astronomer known for discovering Comet Hyakutake, officially designated C/1996 B2....

Contemporary Japan Observational Comets

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George Biddell Airy

George Biddell Airy was a British astronomer and mathematician who served as Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881. He carr...

19TH Century British Observational Meridian

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