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    Frederick William Herschel KH, FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl/; German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822) was a German-British astronomer...
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    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...
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    including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. She was the younger sister of astronomer William Herschel, with whom she worked throughout...
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    kilometres (930,000 mi) from Earth, about two months later. Herschel is named after Sir William Herschel, the discoverer of the infrared spectrum and planet Uranus...
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    Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification...
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    The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a 4.20-metre (165 in) optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...
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    was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline. The museum is situated in the former home of the Herschels at 19 New King Street (south...
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  • William Herschel was a British astronomer and composer who became famous for discovering the planet Uranus. William Herschel may also refer to: Sir William...
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  • grandson of Sir William Herschel William James Herschel (1833–1917), Indian Civil Service officer, grandson of Sir William Herschel John Herschel the Younger...
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    supporting observations made using a telescope. With the observations of William Herschel, Friedrich Bessel, and other astronomers, it was realized that the...
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    It is named after the 18th-century astronomer William Herschel, who discovered Mimas in 1789. Herschel is the second-largest crater relative to its parent...
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    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'...
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    transparent to sunlight, obstructed radiant heat. In 1800 the astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered that infrared radiation is a type of invisible radiation...
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  • Herschel or Herschell may refer to: Herschel (name), various people Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa Herschel, Saskatchewan Herschel, Yukon Herschel...
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    William Herschel (1785), "On the Construction of the Heavens", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 75: 213–266. Herschel's diagram...
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    nebulae was then greatly increased by the efforts of William Herschel and his sister, Caroline Herschel. Their Catalogue of One Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters...
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    which were spotted by Sir William Herschel on January 11, 1787, six years after he had discovered the planet itself. Later, Herschel thought he had discovered...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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)...
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    astronomers William Herschel and John Herschel. Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft originally photographed fields of dark sand dunes within Herschel. Images...
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  • 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...
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    the constellation Orion. It was discovered on February 1, 1786 by William Herschel. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula silhouetted against it. Orion...
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  • astronomer William Herschel. Herschel (lunar crater), on the Moon Herschel (Martian crater), on Mars Herschel (Mimantean crater), on Mimas J. Herschel (crater)...
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    Subsequently, William Herschel assembled a catalog of 5,000 nebulae. In 1845, Lord Rosse examined the nebulae catalogued by Herschel and observed the...
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    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...
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    Chronicle. 81, Part 2: 661. Herschel, William; John Louis Emil Dreyer, A (September 2013). The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel; Including Early Papers...
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    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...
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    should the Lord Architect have left that space empty? Not at all." When William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, the planet's orbit closely matched the law...
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