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In 2011 a new bus station, the design of which was inspired by the infrared experiment of William Herschel, was built in the centre of Slough. [112] John Keats alludes to Herschel's discovery of Uranus in his 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer": "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies/ When a new planet swims into his ken."
Pages in category "Discoveries by William Herschel" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars was first published in 1786 by William Herschel in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. [1] In 1789, he added another 1,000 entries, [2] and finally another 500 in 1802, [3] bringing the total to 2,500 entries. This catalogue originated the usage of letters and catalogue ...
It was discovered by William Herschel on 9 December 1784. [4] NGC 1332 has a Hubble classification of E, which indicates it is an elliptical galaxy. It is moving away from the Milky Way at a rate of 1,553 km/s. Its size on the night sky is 4.5' x 1.4' which is proportional to its real size of 92 000 ly. [citation needed] NGC 1332 is an early ...
William Herschel, discoverer of Mimas. Mimas was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on 17 September 1789. He recorded his discovery as follows: I continued my observations constantly, whenever the weather would permit; and the great light of the forty-feet speculum was now of so much use, that I also, on the 17th of September, detected the seventh satellite, when it was at its ...
NGC 2648 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1784. [1] The galaxies PGC 24469 and NGC 2648 are designated in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 89. [2] The luminosity class of NGC 2648 is I and it has a broad HI line. [1]
Titania was discovered by William Herschel on January 11, 1787, the same day he discovered Uranus's second largest moon, Oberon. [1] [11] He later reported the discoveries of four more satellites, [12] although they were subsequently revealed as spurious. [13]
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 House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch (120 cm) diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long (12 m) focal length (hence its name "Forty-Foot").