Herschel
Herschel stands for:
- Herschel (name) , a first and family name
- Herschel (South Africa) , village in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Herschel Heights , group of Nunatakkern on the Alexander I Island in Antarctica
- Herschel Island , island in the Canadian Arctic
- Mount Herschel (3335 m), mountain in Viktorialand, Antarctica
- Herschel (Limpurger Berge) (522.1 m), spur of the Limpurger Berge west of Winzenweiler, town of Gaildorf, district of Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg
- Herschel , mountain plateau near Jungholzhausen , Braunsbach community, Schwäbisch Hall district, Baden-Württemberg
In astronomy, Herschel stands for:
- Herschel's telescope , a type of reflector telescope made by Wilhelm Herschel
- Herschel's Telescope (constellation) , a historical constellation of the northern sky
- ESA's Herschel Space Telescope
- Herschel (Mimas crater) , largest impact crater on Saturn's moon Mimas
- Herschel (moon crater) , crater on the earth's moon
- (2000) Herschel , an asteroid of the main belt
- C. Herschel , impact crater on the Earth's moon
- J. Herschel , Whale Plain on the Earth's Moon
- Herschel wedge (Herschel prism), optical device for astronomical observation of the sun
- Term used at times for the planet Uranus, see Uranus (planet) #Name
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