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  2. William Herschel - Wikipedia

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    The William Herschel Double Star Catalogs Restored; Full text of Herschel by Hector Macpherson. Full text of The Story of the Herschels (1886) from Project Gutenberg; Portraits of William Herschel Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine at the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom) Herschel Museum of Astronomy located in his Bath home

  3. Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. New General Catalogue - Wikipedia

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    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.Dreyer had already published a supplement to Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters (GC), [2] containing about 1,000 new objects.

  5. Timeline of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The first major Arabic work of astronomy is the Zij al-Sindh by Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. The work contains tables for the movements of the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets known at the time. The work is significant as it introduced Ptolemaic concepts into Islamic sciences. This work also marks the turning point in Arabic astronomy.

  6. Cat's Eye Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Cat's Eye Nebula (also known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was the first planetary nebula whose spectrum was investigated by the English amateur astronomer William Huggins , demonstrating that planetary nebulae were gaseous ...

  7. Timeline of Solar System astronomy - Wikipedia

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    The William Herschel's 40-foot (12 m) telescope 1781 – Charles Messier and his assistant Pierre Méchain publish the first catalogue of 110 nebulae and star clusters , the most prominent deep-sky objects that can easily be observed from Earth's Northern Hemisphere , in order not to be confused with ordinary Solar System's comets .

  8. 40-foot telescope - Wikipedia

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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 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" ).

  9. Timeline of cosmological theories - Wikipedia

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    1785 – William Herschel proposes a heliocentric model of the universe that Earth's Sun is at or near the center of the universe, which at the time was assumed to only be the Milky Way Galaxy. [74] 1791 – Erasmus Darwin pens the first description of a cyclical expanding and contracting universe in his poem The Economy of Vegetation.