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page 1Discoverers of astronomical objects
William Herschel
German-born British astronomer and composer (1738–1822)
Edmond Halley
English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (*1792 – †1871)
Charles Messier
18th- and 19th-century French astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
Caroline Herschel
German-British astronomer (1750-1848)
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer
Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer (1812-1910)
Walter Baade
German astronomer (1893–1960)
Edward Emerson Barnard
American astronomer and astronomical photographer (1857-1923)
Max Wolf
German astrophotography pioneer (1863–1932)
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
Persian astronomer (903-986)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1793–1864)
James Bradley
English astronomer; Astronomer Royal
Johann Elert Bode
Prusian astronomer (1747–1826)
Williamina Fleming
Scottish-American astronomer (1857–1911)
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
German astronomer (1822–1875)
Karl Ludwig Harding
German astronomer (1765-1834)
Pierre Méchain
French mathematician and astronomer (1744-1804)
Albert Marth
German astronomer (1828–1897)
Lewis A. Swift
American astronomer
Édouard Stephan
French astronomer (1837–1923)
George O. Abell
American astronomer (1927—1983)
Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Baltic German astronomer (1819–1905)
Margaret Geller
American astronomer
Giovan Battista Hodierna
Italian astronomer
Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux
Swiss astronomer (1718–1751)
Guillaume Le Gentil
French astronomer
John Bevis
English astronomer (1695–1771)
Beniamin Margaryan
Armenian astrophysicist (1913–1985)
Willem Blaeu
Dutch cartographer, atlas maker and publisher (1571-1638)
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke
German astronomer (1835-1897)
Grigory Abramovich Shajn
Soviet astronomer (1892-1956)
Rudolph Minkowski
American astronomer
Barnaba Oriani
Italian astronomer (1752-1832)
William Frederick Denning
British amateur astronomer (1848-1931)
Paul W. Merrill
American astronomer (1887–1961)
Solon Irving Bailey
American astronomer (1854–1931)
Edward Pigott
British astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Maraldi
Italian astronomer
Vera Gaze
Soviet astronomer
Guillermo Haro
Mexican astronomer (1913–1988)
Jean Jacques Dortous de Mayran
French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist
Johann Gottfried Koehler
German astronomer (1745-1801)
Sidney van den Bergh
Canadian astronomer
Johann Abraham Ihle
German astronomer
Truman Henry Safford
American astronomer (1836-1901)
Paolo Maffei
Italian astrophysicist (1926-2009)
Francis G. Pease
American astronomer (1881–1938)
David Peck Todd
American astronomer (1855–1939)
Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler
Austrian astronomer (1859–1946)
John Martin Schaeberle
(1853-1924) astronomer
Mark Robert Showalter
American astronomer
Bärbel Koribalski
German astrophysicist
Stewart Sharpless
American astronomer (1926-2013)
Ramón María Aller Ulloa
Spanish astronomer and mathematician (1878-1966)