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Homer (c. 800-700 BC) Hesiod (c. 740-670 BC) Aristotle (384-322 BC) Aratos (310-245 BC) Hipparchus (c. 190-120 BC) Ptolemy (c. 85-165 AD) Al Sufi (903-986 AD) Ulugh Begh (1394-1449) Vespucci, Amerigo (1451-1512) Martyr, Peter (1457-1526) Yanez Pinzon, Vicente (1463-1514) Magellan, Fernando de (1480-1521) Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601) Bayer, Johann (1572-1625) Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Peiresc, Nicholas-Claude Fabri de (1580-1637) Cysatus, Johann Baptist (1588-1657) Marius, Simon (1570-1624) Huygens, Christiaan (1629-95) Hodierna, Giovanni Battista (1597-1660) Bullialdus, Ismail (1605-94) Hevelius, Johan [Jan] (1611-87) Ihle, Johann Abraham (1627-99?) Picard, Jean (1620-82) Halley, Edmond (1656-1742) Flamsteed, John (1646-1719) Kirch, Gottfried (1639-1710) Cassini, Giovanni Domenico (Cassini I; 1625-1712) De Mairan, Jean-Jacques Dortous (1678-1771) Bevis, John (1695-1771) Derham, William (1657-1735) De Chéseaux, Philippe Loys (1718-51) Maraldi, Jean-Dominique (Maraldi II; 1709-88) Le Gentil de la Galaziere, Guillaume-Joseph-Hyacinthe-Jean-Baptiste (1725-92) Lacaille, Nicholas Louis de (1713-62) Messier, Charles (1730-1817) Koehler, Johann Gottfried (1745-1801) Bode, Johann Elert (1747-1826) Darquier de Pellepoix, Antoine (1718-1802) Pigott, Edward (1753-1825) Oriani, Barnabus (1752-1832) Méchain, Pierre (1744-1804) Herschel, Caroline (1750-1848) Herschel, William (1738-1822) Harding, Karl Ludwig (1765-1834) Cacciatore, Nicolò (1780-1841) Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm (1793-1864) Dunlop, James (1793-1848) Herschel, John (1792-1871)
Flammarion, Camille (1842-1925) - added M104 Thomas, Oswald (1882-1963) - identified M48 Sawyer Hogg, Helen (1905-1993) - added M105, M106, M107 Morris, T.F. - identified M47, M48 Gingerich, Owen (1930-2023) - added M108, M109 Jones, Kenneth Glyn (1915-1995) - added M110 Williams, William C. - identified M91Mallas, John (c. 1927-1975) - identified M40 Kreimer, Evered (c. 1922-2016) Vehrenberg, Hans (1910-1991) Machholz, Don (1952-2022) Débarbat, Suzanne (1928-2024)
Fortin, Jean Nicolas (1750-1831) - in his Atlas Céleste, positions of "nebulae" by Méchain, including M109B (NGC 3953) Winnecke, A. (1835-97) - found various deepsky objects and double stars including M40
Palitzsch, Johann Georg (1723-1788) Messier Klinkenberg, Dirk (1709-1799) Helfenzrieder, Johann Evangelist (1724-1803) Montaigne, Jacques Leibax (1716-1785?) Bode Méchain Herschel, Caroline Gregory, Edward
Maskelyne, Nevil (1723-1811) Delisle, Joseph Nicholas (1688-1768) Lalande, Joseph-Jerome le Francais de (1732-1807) Lexell, Anders (1740-84) Pingre, Alexandre-Guy (1711-96) Saron, Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard (Bochart) de (1730-94) D'Angos, Chevalier Jean Auguste (1744-1833)
Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923) Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm (1784-1846) Bigourdan, Guillaume (1851-1932) Bond, William Cranch (1789-1859) Bond, George Phillips (1826-65) Cassini II, Jacques (1677-1756) Cassini III, César François (1714-1784) Cassini IV, Jean DDominique (1748-1825) D'Arrest, Heinrich Ludwig (1822-1875) Draper, Henry (1837-1882) Dreyer, John Louis Emil (1852-1926) Gore, John Ellard (1845-1910) Hahn, Friedrich von (1742-1805) Hartwig, Ernst (1851-1923) Henry, Paul (1848-1905) Henry, Prosper (1849-1903) Huggins, William (1824-1910) Lassell, William (1799-1880) Maraldi I, Jacques Philippe (1665-1729) Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759) Michell, John (1724-1793) Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826) Roberts, Isaac (1829-1904) Rosse, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of (1800-1867) Smyth, William Henry (1788-1865) Spitzer, Jr., Lyman (1914-1997) Tempel, Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht (1821-1889) Webb, Thomas William (1807-1885) Zach, Francis Xavier, Baron de (1754-1832) Slipher, Vesto Melvin (1875-1969) Curtis, Heber Doust (1872-1942) Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972) Hubble, Edwin Powell (1889-1953) Trumpler, Robert Julius (1886-1956) Seyfert, Carl Keenan (1911-60)
Al Sufi Aratos Aristotle Barnard Bayer Bessel Bevis Bigourdan Bode Bond, G.P. Bond, W.C. Brahe, Tycho Bullialdus Cacciatore Cassini, G.D. (I) Cassini, J. (II) Cassini, C.F. (III) Cassini, J.D. (IV) Curtis Cysatus D'Angos Darquier D'Arrest Débarbat De Chéseaux Delisle De Mairan Derham Draper Dreyer Dunlop Flammarion Flamsteed Fortin Galileo Gingerich Gore Gregory Hahn Halley Harding Hartwig Helfenzrieder Henry, Paul (1848-1905) Henry, Prosper (1849-1903) Herschel, C. Herschel, J. Herschel, W. Hesiod Hevelius Hipparchus Hodierna Hogg, H.S. Homer Hubble Huggins Huygens Ihle Jones, K.G. Kirch Klinkenberg Koehler Kreimer Lacaille Lalande Lassell Le Gentil Lexell Machholz Magellan Mallas Maraldi, G.F. (I) Maraldi, J.D. (II) Marius Martyr Maskelyne Maupertuis Méchain Messier Michell Montaigne Morris Oriani Palitzsch Peiresc Piazzi Picard Pigott Pingre Ptolemy Roberts Rosse Saron Seyfert Shapley Slipher Smyth Spitzer Struve Tempel Thomas Trumpler Ulugh Begh Vehrenberg Vespucci Webb Williams Winnecke Yanez Pinzon Zach
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