Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer... 78 KB (8,510 words) - 11:42, 30 April 2024 |
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician... 43 KB (4,083 words) - 16:32, 3 May 2024 |
Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification... 6 KB (454 words) - 17:05, 18 May 2023 |
William Herschel was a British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus. William Herschel may also refer to: Sir William... 341 bytes (69 words) - 19:45, 18 November 2021 |
grandson of Sir William Herschel William James Herschel (1833–1917), Indian Civil Service officer, grandson of Sir William Herschel John Herschel the Younger... 7 KB (884 words) - 22:07, 27 March 2024 |
Mimas (category Discoveries by William Herschel) event. The crater's name is derived from the discoverer of Mimas, William Herschel, in 1789. The moon's presence has created one of the largest 'gaps'... 29 KB (2,748 words) - 07:46, 25 April 2024 |
Herschel or Herschell may refer to: Herschel (name), various people Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa Herschel, Saskatchewan Herschel, Yukon Herschel... 2 KB (288 words) - 00:17, 12 March 2023 |
William Herschel (1785), "On the Construction of the Heavens", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 75: 213–266. Herschel's diagram... 210 KB (20,998 words) - 04:08, 7 May 2024 |
Uranus (category Discoveries by William Herschel) Sir William Herschel observed Uranus on 13 March 1781 from the garden of his house at 19 New King Street in Bath, Somerset, England (now the Herschel Museum... 154 KB (15,171 words) - 06:01, 6 May 2024 |
40-foot telescope (redirect from William Herschel's Telescope) William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory... 15 KB (1,848 words) - 15:34, 10 February 2024 |
double-shell planetary nebula (PN). It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1787. The formation resembles a person's head surrounded by a parka... 7 KB (669 words) - 00:37, 11 March 2024 |
The Herschel 400 catalogue is a subset of William Herschel's original Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, selected by Brenda F. Guzman (Branchett)... 91 KB (395 words) - 23:30, 5 March 2024 |
astronomers William Herschel and John Herschel. Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft originally photographed fields of dark sand dunes within Herschel. Images... 3 KB (299 words) - 17:42, 13 March 2022 |
Stewart Herschel, DCL, FRS (5 February 1836 – 18 June 1907) was a British astronomer. Although much less well known than his grandfather William Herschel or... 12 KB (1,276 words) - 02:13, 11 January 2024 |
the constellation Orion. It was discovered on February 1, 1786 by William Herschel. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula silhouetted against it. Orion... 1 KB (90 words) - 21:41, 26 April 2024 |
astronomer William Herschel. Herschel (lunar crater), on the Moon Herschel (Martian crater), on Mars Herschel (Mimantean crater), on Mimas J. Herschel (crater)... 615 bytes (107 words) - 22:07, 8 August 2017 |
Subsequently, William Herschel assembled a catalog of 5,000 nebulae. In 1845, Lord Rosse examined the nebulae catalogued by Herschel and observed the... 164 KB (16,377 words) - 17:18, 27 April 2024 |
diameter is 39 km. It was named after German-born British astronomer William Herschel. Just to the north is the flooded crater Spörer, and around 30 km due... 6 KB (461 words) - 18:09, 18 May 2023 |
Margaret, Lady Herschel (née Brodie Stewart; 1810–1884) was a British botanical artist and hostess. While she was in Cape Colony, she and her husband made... 10 KB (942 words) - 17:58, 3 May 2024 |