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Herschel and published
Herschel published his results in 1800 before the Royal Society of London.
Herschel published his results in 1800 before the Royal Society of London.
His theoretical and observational work provided the foundation for modern binary star astronomy ; new catalogues adding to his work were not published until after 1820 by Friedrich Wilhelm Struve, James South and John Herschel.
Herschel's discoveries were supplemented by those of Caroline Herschel ( 11 objects ) and his son John Herschel ( 1754 objects ) and published by him as General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters in 1864.
NFL player Herschel Walker published an autobiography in 2008 discussing his life and diagnosis of DID.
Herschel returned to England in 1838, was created a baronet, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, and published Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope in 1847.
William Herschel began observing double stars in 1779 and soon thereafter published catalogs of about 700 double stars.
However, this invention was not published until 1827, so this type of telescope has become associated with a similar design by William Herschel, the Herschelian telescope.
Beginning with the first large sample of nebulae published by William and John Herschel in 1863, it was known that there is a marked excess of nebular fields in the constellation Virgo ( near the north galactic pole ).
* August 25-The first of six articles on discoveries of living creatures on the moon supposedly made by Herschel and a fictitious companion named Dr. Andrew Grant is published in the New York Sun.
The peculiarity of this galaxy was first identified in 1847 by John Herschel, and the galaxy was included in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies ( published in 1966 ) as one of the best examples of a " disturbed " galaxy with dust absorption.
The first attempt to accurately draw the nebula ( as part of a series of sketches of nebulae ) was made by John Herschel in 1833, and published in 1836.
When Herschel published his 1837 sketch in 1847, he wrote:
Herschel catalogued it as nebula 3334 in his Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, published in 1847.
When Herschel later that century attempted to invent a color process, he tried several flower and plant emulsions and published his findings.
A Fragment published that year included a copy of a letter John Herschel had sent to Charles Lyell in 1836, not long before Darwin visited Herschel in Cape Town.

Herschel and discoveries
* John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 ( on-line )
From the back garden of his house in New King Street, Bath, and using a, ( f / 13 ) Newtonian telescope " with a most capital speculum " of his own manufacture, in October 1779, Herschel began a systematic search for such stars among " every star in the Heavens ", with new discoveries listed through 1792.
In 1835, the New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids.
The discoveries were falsely attributed to Sir John Herschel, perhaps the best-known astronomer of his time.
It was discovered by William Herschel on September 7, 1782, using a telescope of his own design in the garden at his home in Datchet, England, and was one of his earliest discoveries in his sky survey.

Herschel and three
The Blue Planetary was discovered by John Herschel and named for its color's similarity to Uranus, though the nebula is three times larger than the planet.
The structure of Darwin's argument showed the influence of John Herschel, whose philosophy of science maintained that a mechanism could be called a vera causa ( true cause ) if three things could be demonstrated: its existence in nature, its ability to produce the effects of interest, and its ability to explain a wide range of observations.
Ty Cobb was born in Narrows, Georgia in 1886, the first of three children to Amanda Chitwood Cobb and William Herschel Cobb.
The USFL had notable success, including three consecutive Heisman Trophy winners: Georgia running back Herschel Walker and Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie signed with the New Jersey Generals, and Nebraska running back Mike Rozier signed with the Pittsburgh Maulers out of college.
After he was taken to the office of Ernst vom Rath, Herschel shot him three times in the abdomen.
Herschel was one of six children of whom only three survived childhood.
For similar reasons, the studio-based drummer / composer Herschel Dwellingham played drums on four of the album's six tracks, replacing Gravatt entirely on three of them: on " Non-Stop Home ", Dwellingham and Gravatt played together, with Gravatt the sole drummer only on " 125th Street Congress ".
To elevate astronomical science the Astronomical Society of London was founded, and the three reformers Peacock, Babbage and Herschel were again prime movers in the undertaking.
* During the night of April 19, 1787, the famous British astronomer Sir William Herschel noticed three red glowing spots on the dark part of the moon.
Herschel attributed the phenomena to erupting volcanoes and perceived the luminosity of the brightest of the three as greater than the brightness of a comet that had been discovered on April 10.
Five players have finished in the top three of the Heisman voting as freshmen or sophomores before later winning the award: Angelo Bertelli, Glenn Davis, Doc Blanchard, Doak Walker, and Herschel Walker.
Hanukkah Harry agrees and flies through the air on a cart pulled by three donkeys, Moische, Herschel and Schlomo.
Franklin ’ s journal records states that he wished to honour the name Herschel, of which three persons are notable for their scientific accomplishments: Sir William Herschel, his sister Caroline Herschel, and his son Sir John Herschel.
At the time of Franklin's explorations there were three Inuvialuit settlements on Herschel Island.
William Herschel discovered the first two moons, Titania and Oberon, in 1787, and the other three ellipsoidal moons were discovered in 1851 by William Lassell ( Ariel and Umbriel ) and in 1948 by Gerard Kuiper ( Miranda ).
Herschel carries three detectors:

Herschel and catalogues
The purpose of the telescope was to re-visit the nebulae in the catalogues of Charles Messier and John Herschel.

Herschel and Catalogue
* Herschel 400 Catalogue
The original New General Catalogue was compiled during the 1880s by John Louis Emil Dreyer using observations from William Herschel and his son John, among others.
* 1864 — John Herschel publishes the General Catalogue of nebulae and star clusters
He supervised the compilation of the Palermo Catalogue of stars, containing 7, 646 star entries with unprecedented precision, including the star names " Garnet Star " from Herschel, and the original Rotanev and Sualocin.
Nonetheless, Herschel included M73 in his General Catalogue of clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, and John Dreyer included M73 when he compiled the New General Catalogue.
John Herschel observed the object again in 1833 when he cataloged it as " h 35 ", and then in 1864 when he cataloged it as " GC 90 " within his General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters.

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