Surname
|
country
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*
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In
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†
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In
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Number NGC
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Number IC
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Observatories
|
image
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Robert Grant Aitken
|
US
|
Dec. 31, 1864
|
Jackson
|
Oct 29, 1951
|
Berkeley
|
|
1
|
Lick Observatory
|
|
Aratos from Soloi
|
GR
|
310 BC Chr.
|
Soloi
|
245 BC Chr.
|
|
1
|
|
|
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Aristotle
|
GR
|
384 BC Chr.
|
Stageira
|
322 BC Chr.
|
Chalkida
|
1
|
|
|
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Abd al-Rahman as-Sufi
|
IR
|
7 Dec 903
|
Rey
|
May 25, 986
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Shiraz
|
1
|
|
|
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Arthur von Auwers
|
DE
|
Sep 12 1838
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Goettingen
|
Jan. 24, 1915
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Berlin
|
2
|
|
Königsberg observatory , Berlin observatory
|
|
Solon Irving Bailey
|
US
|
December 29, 1854
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Lisbon
|
June 5, 1931
|
Boston
|
|
1
|
Boyden Observatory , Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Francis Baily
|
GB
|
Apr 28, 1774
|
Newbury
|
Aug 30, 1844
|
London
|
1
|
|
|
|
Robert Stawell Ball
|
IE
|
July 1, 1840
|
Dublin
|
Nov 25, 1913
|
Cambridge
|
11
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
Edward Emerson Barnard
|
US
|
Dec 16, 1857
|
Nashville
|
Feb 6, 1923
|
Nashville
|
17th
|
129
|
Vanderbilt Observatory , Lick Observatory
|
|
Joseph Baxendell
|
GB
|
April 19, 1815
|
Manchester
|
Oct 7, 1887
|
Birkdale
|
1
|
|
Fernley Observatory
|
|
John Bevis
|
GB
|
Oct 31, 1693
|
Old Sarum
|
Nov 6, 1771
|
London
|
1
|
|
|
|
Friedrich Andreas Markus Alexander Bidschof
|
AT
|
Dec 6, 1864
|
Vienna
|
December 7, 1915
|
Vienna
|
|
2
|
Vienna University Observatory , Astronomical Observatory Trieste
|
|
Guillaume Bigourdan
|
FR
|
Apr 6, 1851
|
Sistula
|
Feb. 28, 1932
|
Paris
|
70
|
264
|
Toulouse observatory , Paris observatory
|
|
Johann Elert Bode
|
DE
|
Jan. 19, 1747
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Hamburg
|
Nov 23, 1826
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Berlin
|
4th
|
|
Berlin observatory
|
|
George Phillips Bond
|
US
|
May 20, 1825
|
Dorchester
|
17 Feb 1865
|
Cambridge
|
14th
|
|
Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
|
FR
|
Dec 6, 1842
|
Roquemaure
|
Feb. 28, 1926
|
Nîmes
|
6th
|
|
Observatoire de Marseille
|
|
Theodor Johann Christian Ambders Brorsen
|
DK
|
July 29, 1819
|
Nordborg
|
March 31, 1895
|
Nordborg
|
1
|
|
Altona Observatory , Observatory Senftenberg
|
|
Karl Christian Bruhns
|
DE
|
Nov 22, 1830
|
Plön
|
July 25, 1881
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Leipzig
|
1
|
|
Berlin observatory , Leipzig observatory
|
|
Sherburne Wesley Burnham
|
US
|
Dec 12, 1838
|
Thetford
|
March 11, 1921
|
Chicago
|
5
|
22nd
|
Dearborn Observatory , Lick Observatory , Yerkes Observatory
|
|
Niccolò Cacciatore
|
IT
|
Jan. 26, 1770
|
Casteltermini
|
Jan. 28, 1841
|
Palermo
|
1
|
|
Osservatorio astronomico di Palermo
|
|
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
|
FR
|
June 8, 1625
|
Perinaldo
|
Sep 14 1712
|
Paris
|
1
|
|
Paris observatory
|
|
Jean Chacornac
|
FR
|
June 21, 1823
|
Lyon
|
23 Sep 1873
|
Lyon
|
1
|
|
Observatoire de Marseille , Paris observatory
|
|
Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux
|
CH
|
May 4, 1718
|
Lausanne
|
Nov 30, 1751
|
Paris
|
6th
|
2
|
|
|
Edwin Foster Coddington
|
US
|
June 24, 1870
|
Miami County
|
Dec 21, 1950
|
Columbus
|
|
1
|
Lick Observatory
|
|
Jérôme-Eugène Coggia
|
FR
|
Feb. 18, 1849
|
Ajaccio
|
Jan 15, 1919
|
|
1
|
|
Observatoire de Marseille
|
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Andrew Ainslie Common
|
GB
|
7 Aug 1841
|
Newcastle upon Tyne
|
June 2, 1903
|
Ealing
|
29
|
|
|
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Phillip Sidney Coolidge
|
US
|
22 Aug 1830
|
Boston
|
19 Sep 1863
|
Chickamauga
|
9
|
|
Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Edward Joshua Cooper
|
GB
|
May 1, 1798
|
St. Stephen's Green
|
Apr 28, 1863
|
Markree Castle
|
7th
|
|
Markree Observatory
|
|
Ralph Copeland
|
GB
|
3rd Sep 1837
|
Woodplumpton
|
Oct. 27, 1905
|
Edinburgh
|
35
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown , Dun Real
|
|
Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix
|
FR
|
Nov 23, 1718
|
Toulouse
|
Jan. 18, 1802
|
Toulouse
|
1
|
|
|
|
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
|
DK
|
Aug 12, 1822
|
Berlin
|
June 13, 1875
|
Copenhagen
|
319
|
|
Berlin Observatory , Observatory Leipzig , Observatory Copenhagen
|
|
William Frederick Denning
|
GB
|
Nov 25, 1848
|
Redpost
|
June 9, 1931
|
Bristol
|
|
18th
|
|
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Johan Luis Emil Dreyer
|
DK
|
Feb 13, 1852
|
Copenhagen
|
Sep 14 1926
|
Oxford
|
15th
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown , Dunsink Observatory , Armagh Observatory
|
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Nils Christofer Dunér
|
SE
|
May 21, 1839
|
Billeberga
|
Nov 10, 1914
|
Stockholm
|
1
|
|
Lund Observatory , Uppsala Observatory
|
|
James Dunlop
|
GB
|
Oct 31, 1793
|
Dalry
|
22 Sep 1848
|
Bora Bora
|
225
|
10
|
Parramatta Observatory , Observatory Roxburgh
|
|
Basil of Engelhardt
|
RU
|
July 29, 1828
|
Kustowitschy
|
May 17, 1915
|
Dresden
|
|
1
|
|
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Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
|
GB
|
May 28, 1858
|
Birmingham
|
Dec. 2, 1934
|
Tow Law
|
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18th
|
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Gaspare Stanislao Ferrari
|
IT
|
Oct 23, 1834
|
Bologna
|
June 20, 1903
|
Paris
|
14th
|
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Vatican observatory
|
|
William Henry Finlay
|
ZA
|
June 17, 1849
|
Liverpool
|
December 7, 1924
|
Cape Town
|
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4th
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Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
|
|
John Flamsteed
|
GB
|
19 Aug 1646
|
Denby
|
December 31, 1719
|
Greenwich
|
1
|
|
Royal Greenwich Observatory
|
|
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
|
US
|
May 15, 1857
|
Dundee
|
May 21, 1911
|
Boston
|
|
46
|
Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Royal Harwood Frost
|
US
|
Feb 25, 1879
|
Salem
|
May 11, 1950
|
Shreveport
|
|
446
|
Harvard College Observatory , Arequipa Harvard Observatory
|
|
Walter Frederick Gale
|
AU
|
Nov. 27, 1865
|
Paddington
|
June 1, 1945
|
Waverly
|
|
1
|
|
|
Asaph Hall
|
US
|
Oct 15, 1829
|
Goshen
|
Nov 22, 1907
|
Annapolis
|
1
|
|
Harvard College Observatory , Naval Observatory
|
|
Edmond Halley
|
GB
|
Nov 8, 1656
|
Haggerston
|
Jan. 14, 1742
|
Greenwich
|
2
|
|
|
|
Karl Ludwig Harding
|
DE
|
29 Sep 1765
|
Lauenburg
|
31 Aug 1834
|
Goettingen
|
1
|
|
Lilienthal Observatory , Observatory Göttingen
|
|
Mark Walrod Harrington
|
US
|
Aug 18, 1848
|
Sycamore
|
Sep 10 1926
|
Morris Plains
|
1
|
|
Detroit Observatory
|
|
Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig
|
DE
|
Jan. 14, 1851
|
Frankfurt am Main
|
May 3, 1923
|
Bamberg
|
5
|
|
Observatoire de Strasbourg , observatory Tartu , observatory Bamberg
|
|
M athieu-Prosper Henry
|
FR
|
Dec 10, 1849
|
Nancy
|
July 25, 1903
|
Pralognan
|
1
|
|
Paris observatory
|
|
P aul-Pierre Henry
|
FR
|
Aug 21, 1848
|
Nancy
|
Jan. 4, 1905
|
Montrouge
|
1
|
|
Paris observatory
|
|
C aroline Lucretia Herschel
|
DE
|
March 16, 1750
|
Hanover
|
Jan. 9, 1848
|
Hanover
|
10
|
|
|
|
J ohn Frederick William Herschel
|
GB
|
March 7, 1792
|
Slough
|
May 11, 1871
|
Hawkhurst
|
1691
|
1
|
|
|
Friedrich W ilhelm Herschel
|
GB
|
Nov 15, 1738
|
Hanover
|
25 Aug 1822
|
Slough
|
2415
|
8th
|
|
|
John Russell Hind
|
GB
|
May 12, 1823
|
Nottingham
|
23 Dec 1895
|
Twickenham
|
4th
|
|
Royal Greenwich Observatory , Regent's Park Observatory
|
|
Hipparchus of Nicaea
|
GR
|
190 BC Chr.
|
Nicaea
|
120 BC Chr.
|
Rhodes ev.
|
2
|
|
|
|
Giovanni Battista Hodierna
|
IT
|
Apr 13, 1597
|
Ragusa
|
Aug 6, 1660
|
Palma di Montechiaro
|
11
|
|
|
|
Edward Singleton Holden
|
US
|
Nov 5, 1846
|
St. Louis
|
March 16, 1914
|
West Point
|
18th
|
|
Naval Observatory , Washburn Observatory , Lick Observatory
|
|
George Washington Hough
|
US
|
Oct. 24, 1836
|
Montgomery
|
Jan. 1, 1909
|
Evanston
|
4th
|
|
Dudley Observatory , Dearborn Observatory
|
|
Herbert Alonzo Howe
|
US
|
Nov 22, 1858
|
Brockport NY
|
Nov 2, 1926
|
Denver
|
|
57
|
Chamberlin Observatory
|
|
Samuel Hunter
|
IE
|
?
|
|
?
|
|
2
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
Johann Abraham Ihle
|
DE
|
June 14, 1627
|
Leipzig
|
1699
|
Leipzig
|
1
|
|
|
|
Robert Thorburn Ayres Innes
|
GB
|
Nov 10, 1861
|
Edinburgh
|
March 13, 1933
|
London
|
|
13
|
Union Observatory , Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
|
|
Stéphane Javelle
|
FR
|
Nov 16, 1864
|
Lyon
|
Aug 3, 1917
|
Nice
|
|
1364
|
Observatoire de Nice
|
|
James Edward Keeler
|
US
|
Sep 10 1857
|
LaSalle
|
Aug 12, 1900
|
San Francisco
|
|
7th
|
Allegheny Observatory , Lick Observatory
|
|
Gottfried Kirch
|
DE
|
Dec 18, 1639
|
Guben
|
July 25, 1710
|
Berlin
|
2
|
|
Berlin observatory
|
|
Hermann Albert Kobold
|
DE
|
Aug 5, 1858
|
Hanover
|
June 11, 1942
|
Kiel
|
|
37
|
Observatoire de Strasbourg
|
|
Johann Gottfried Koehler
|
DE
|
Dec 15, 1745
|
Gauernitz
|
19 Sep 1801
|
Dresden
|
3
|
|
|
|
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
|
FR
|
March 15, 1713
|
Rumigny
|
March 21, 1762
|
Paris
|
23
|
4th
|
|
|
William Lassell
|
GB
|
June 18, 1799
|
Bolton
|
Oct 5, 1880
|
Maidenhead
|
4th
|
|
|
|
Francis Preserved Leavenworth
|
US
|
3rd Sep 1858
|
Mount Vernon
|
Nov 12, 1928
|
Saint Paul
|
251
|
3
|
Leander McCormick Observatory
|
|
Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil
|
FR
|
Sep 12 1725
|
Coutances
|
Oct. 22, 1792
|
Paris
|
2
|
|
Paris observatory
|
|
Jakob Gerhard Lohse
|
DE
|
Jan. 10, 1851
|
Funfhausen
|
Jan. 2, 1941
|
Oldenburg
|
16
|
|
Dun Real , Wigglesworth Observatory , Royal Observatory Edinburgh
|
|
Joseph Lunt
|
GB
|
July 6, 1866
|
Egerton
|
Jan. 4, 1940
|
Cape Town
|
|
7th
|
Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
|
|
Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan
|
FR
|
Nov 26, 1678
|
Beziers
|
Feb. 20, 1771
|
Paris
|
1
|
|
|
|
Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
|
IT
|
Apr 17, 1709
|
Perinaldo
|
Nov 14, 1788
|
Perinaldo
|
2
|
|
|
|
Albert Marth
|
DE
|
May 5, 1828
|
Kolberg
|
Aug 5, 1897
|
Heidelberg
|
582
|
1
|
Regent's Park Observatory , Durham Observatory , Markree Observatory
|
|
Pierre-François-André Méchain
|
FR
|
16 Aug 1744
|
Laon
|
Sep 20 1804
|
Castellón de la Plana
|
26th
|
|
Paris observatory
|
|
Charles Messier
|
FR
|
June 26, 1730
|
Badonviller
|
Apr 12, 1817
|
Paris
|
40
|
1
|
|
|
RJ Mitchell
|
IE
|
?
|
|
?
|
|
83
|
3
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
Frank Muller
|
US
|
Sep 10 1862
|
Virginia
|
April 19, 1917
|
|
82
|
13
|
Leander McCormick Observatory
|
|
Samuel Oppenheim
|
AT
|
Nov 19, 1857
|
Braunsberg
|
Aug 15, 1928
|
Vienna
|
1
|
|
Kuffner Observatory , University Observatory Vienna
|
|
Barnaba Oriani
|
IT
|
July 17, 1752
|
Carignano
|
Nov 12, 1832
|
Brera
|
1
|
|
Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera
|
|
Johann Palisa
|
AT
|
Dec 6, 1848
|
Troppau
|
May 2, 1925
|
Vienna
|
7th
|
1
|
Marine Observatory Pola , University Observatory Vienna
|
|
NM Parrish
|
US
|
?
|
|
?
|
|
|
5
|
|
|
L awrence Parsons , 4th Earl of Rosse
|
IE
|
Nov 17, 1840
|
Birr Castle
|
Aug 30, 1908
|
Birr Castle
|
38
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
W illiam Parsons , 3rd Earl of Rosse
|
IE
|
June 17, 1800
|
York
|
Oct. 31, 1867
|
Birr Castle
|
2
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
Carl Frederick Pechüle
|
DK
|
June 8, 1843
|
Copenhagen
|
May 28, 1914
|
Copenhagen
|
2
|
3
|
Hamburg observatory , Copenhagen observatory
|
|
Charles Santiago Sanders Peirce
|
US
|
Sep 10 1839
|
Cambridge
|
Apr 19, 1914
|
Milford
|
1
|
|
Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
|
FR
|
1580
|
Belgian animal
|
1637
|
Aix-en-Provence
|
1
|
|
|
|
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
|
US
|
19 Sep 1813
|
Koldenbüttel
|
July 18, 1890
|
Clinton
|
16
|
|
Capodimonte Observatory , Litchfield Observatory
|
|
Edward Charles Pickering
|
US
|
July 19, 1846
|
Boston
|
Feb. 3, 1919
|
Cambridge
|
15th
|
2
|
Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Edward Pigott
|
GB
|
1753
|
Whitton
|
June 27, 1825
|
Bath
|
1
|
|
|
|
Claudius Ptolemy
|
GR
|
87
|
Ptolemais Hermeiou ev.
|
165
|
Alexandria ev.
|
1
|
|
|
|
Isaac Roberts
|
GB
|
Jan. 27, 1829
|
Big
|
July 17, 1904
|
Crowborough
|
|
34
|
|
|
George Friedrich Wilhelm Rümker
|
DE
|
Dec 31, 1832
|
Ottensen
|
March 3, 1900
|
Hamburg
|
1
|
|
Durham Observatory , Hamburg Observatory
|
|
Truman Henry Safford
|
US
|
Jan. 6, 1836
|
Royalton
|
June 13, 1901
|
Newark
|
29
|
39
|
Harvard College Observatory , Dearborn Observatory , Hopkins Observatory
|
|
Johann Martin Schäberle
|
DE
|
Jan. 10, 1853
|
Öschelbronn
|
17 Sep 1924
|
Ann Arbor
|
|
1
|
Lick Observatory
|
|
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt
|
DE
|
Oct. 26, 1825
|
Eutin
|
Feb. 7, 1884
|
Athens
|
16
|
|
National Observatory Athens
|
|
Eduard Schönfeld
|
DE
|
December 22, 1828
|
Hildburghausen
|
May 1, 1891
|
Bonn
|
4th
|
|
Marburg observatory , Mannheim observatory , Bonn observatory
|
|
Per Magnus Herman Schultz
|
SE
|
July 7, 1823
|
Nykvarn
|
May 8, 1890
|
Stockholm
|
12
|
|
Uppsala Observatory
|
|
Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann
|
DE
|
March 25, 1870
|
Hamburg
|
Jan. 19, 1964
|
Hamburg
|
|
149
|
Hamburg observatory
|
|
Kaspar Gottfried Swiss
|
CH
|
Feb 10, 1816
|
Wila
|
July 6, 1873
|
Moscow
|
1
|
|
Pulkovo Observatory , Moscow University Observatory
|
|
George Mary Searle
|
US
|
June 27, 1839
|
London
|
July 27, 1918
|
Washington
|
6th
|
|
Dudley Observatory , Harvard College Observatory
|
|
Aaron Nichols Skinner
|
US
|
Aug 10, 1845
|
Boston
|
Aug 14, 1918
|
Framingham
|
1
|
3
|
Dearborn Observatory , Naval Observatory
|
|
Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler
|
AT
|
Nov 10, 1861
|
Lead mountain
|
March 13, 1933
|
Vienna
|
|
64
|
University observatory Vienna
|
|
Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan
|
FR
|
Aug 31, 1837
|
Sainte-Pezenne
|
Dec 31, 1923
|
Marseille
|
413
|
|
Observatoire de Marseille
|
|
DeLisle Stewart
|
US
|
March 16, 1870
|
Wabasha
|
Feb. 2, 1941
|
Miami Township
|
|
653
|
Harvard College Observatory , Cincinnati Observatory
|
|
Ormond Stone
|
US
|
Jan. 11, 1847
|
Pekin
|
Jan. 17, 1933
|
Centerville
|
88
|
8th
|
Dearborn Observatory , Cincinnati Observatory , Leander McCormick Observatory
|
|
B indon Blood Stoney
|
IE
|
June 13, 1828
|
Oakley Park
|
May 5, 1909
|
Dublin
|
89
|
6th
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
G eorge Johnstone Stoney
|
IE
|
Feb 15, 1826
|
Oakley Park
|
July 5, 1911
|
London
|
53
|
|
Leviathan of Parsonstown
|
|
F riedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
|
DE
|
Apr 15, 1793
|
Altona
|
Nov 23, 1864
|
St. Petersburg
|
7th
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Dorpat Observatory , Pulkovo Observatory
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O tto Wilhelm von Struve
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EE
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May 7, 1819
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Dorpat
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April 16, 1905
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Karlsruhe
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13
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Dorpat Observatory , Pulkovo Observatory
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E dward Doane Swift
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US
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Dec. 24, 1870
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marathon
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25 Sep 1935
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Buffalo
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25th
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21st
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Warner Observatory , Lowe Observatory
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L EWIS A. Swift
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US
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Feb. 20, 1820
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Clarkson
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Jan. 5, 1913
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marathon
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467
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450
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Warner Observatory , Lowe Observatory
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Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Temple
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DE
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Dec. 4, 1821
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Niedercunnersdorf
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March 16, 1889
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Arcetri
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149
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1
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Observatoire de Marseille , Arcetri Observatory
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John Macon Thome
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AR
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22 Aug 1843
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Palmyra
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27 Sep 1908
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Cordoba
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5
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Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba
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David Peck Todd
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US
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March 19, 1855
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Lake Ridge
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June 1, 1939
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Lynchburg
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8th
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2
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Naval Observatory , Amherst College Observatory
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Auguste Voigt
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FR
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Jan. 18, 1828
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Gevrey-Chambertin
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March 12, 1909
|
Géanges
|
5
|
3
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Observatoire de Marseille
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Thomas William Webb
|
GB
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Dec 14, 1807
|
Tretire
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May 19, 1885
|
Hardwicke
|
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1
|
|
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Herbert Couper Wilson
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US
|
Oct. 24, 1858
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Lewiston
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March 9, 1940
|
Northfield
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3
|
Cincinnati Observatory , Goodsell Observatory
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Joseph Winlock
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US
|
Feb 6, 1826
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Shelby County
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June 11, 1875
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Cambridge
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2
|
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Harvard College Observatory
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Friedrich August Winnecke
|
DE
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Feb 5, 1835
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Large armies
|
December 3, 1897
|
Bonn
|
8th
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Berlin observatory , Pulkowa observatory , Observatoire de Strasbourg
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Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf
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DE
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June 21, 1863
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Heidelberg
|
Oct 3, 1932
|
Heidelberg
|
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1112
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State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl
|
|
Charles Augustus Young
|
US
|
Dec 15, 1834
|
Hanover
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Jan. 3, 1908
|
Hanover
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1
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Halsted Observatory
|
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