Joseph Lunt

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Joseph Lunt (born July 6, 1866 in Egerton near Bolton, Greater Manchester , † January 4, 1940 in Cape Town , South Africa ) was a British astronomer .

Life

Joseph Lunt received a Bachelor of Science degree from Owen's College, now at Manchester University . He became a member of the British Astronomical Association , whose photography department he headed in 1897. In July of the same year he was made an assistant at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope , Cape Town . He took up the position in October 1897 and held it until his retirement in 1926. In 1902 Lunt became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society , the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry . In 1909 he was awarded a doctorate degree from Victoria University of Manchester . After founding the Cape Astronomical Association in 1912, he was elected its vice-president, from 1917 to 1919 he was its president. Lunt was married and died of heart disease.

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Lunt worked a. a. about double stars and star spectroscopy , he detected the element europium in Alpha Bootis and Beta Geminorum .

Joseph Lunt discovered the following seven IC objects IC 2621 , IC 4670 , IC 5170 , IC 5171 , IC 5181 , IC 5201 , IC 5224 and is a co-discoverer of comet 1914E.

Individual evidence

  1. S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science
  2. ^ Joseph Lunt: On the origin of certain unknown lines in the spectra of stars of the β crucis type and on the spectrum of silicon , 1900, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 66: 44-50
  3. ^ Joseph Lunt: On the spectrum of silicon; with a note on the spectrum of fluorine , 1905, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A76: 118-126
  4. ^ Joseph Lunt: On the presence of europium in stars , 1907, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A79: 118-125
  5. Joseph Lunt: The spectra of silicon, fluorine and oxygen , 1912, Annals of the Cape Observatory, Volume 10, pages 2.1-2.51
  6. ^ Joseph Lunt: On the Spectrum of Nova Pictoris , 1926, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 86, pages 498-524
  7. ^ Joseph Lunt - Cape Town Observatory and 24 "Victoria Telescope
  8. ^ SRB Cooke: Section for the Observation of the Moon. The Walled Plain Schickard: And a Useful Method of Making Lunar Drawings , Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association 1947, Volume 36, pages 22-24
  9. L. Campbell, AD Walker, EC Pickering: Campbell's Comet, 1914e , Harvard College Observatory Circular, Volume 187, p. 1
  10. ^ HE Wood: The Orbit of Comet 1914 (e) Lunt , 1914, Circular of the Union Observatory Johannesburg, Volume 22, pages 169-170