Honored by the naming of asteroid 768 Struvena, together with his son, astronomer Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819-1905), his grandson astronomer Karl Hermann von Struve (1854-1920), and the Struve family. Asteroid 768 Struvena has been discovered on Octover 4, 1913 by G. Neujmin at Simeis, and provisinally designated A913 TC.
Struve's List of 9 "Nebulae"
In his Catalog of Double and Multiple Stars (Struve 1827, p. 88), Struve also gives a tabel of the 9 "nebulae" he discovered, 4 of them original discoveries:
R.A. (1826) Dec D Id
1 0:33.4 +39:56 M32
2 1:25.3 +72: 0 ! NGC 629
3 9:49.2 +69:33 NGC 3077 (H I.286)
4 13: 4.4 +19: 5 M53
5 16:57.3 +24: 7 ! NGC 6210
6 18: 3.8 + 6:50 ! NGC 6572
7 18:24.0 +54:55 ! NGC 6648 (Struve 2332)
8 20:54.5 -12: 0 NGC 7009 (H IV.1)
9 21:21.6 +11:27 M15
Key:
Number R.A. (1826) Dec D Id
WSt 131 1:22.2 +59:48 M103 WSt 885 6: 7.0 +59:50 ! NGC 2202 (h 385) [Open Cluster in Ori] WSt 2630 19:59.6 +35:16 NGC 6871 (h 2067) [Open Cluster in Cyg] WSt 2631 19:59.8 +20:37 ! NGC 6873 (h 2068) [Group of Stars in Sge]
Transcript of his entries on these objects in Catalogus:
Number A.R. Decl Descriptio Num CP
WSt 131 1h 22.2 +59 48 III. (5) (8). Maxima acervi. WSt 885 6h 7.0 +59 50 I. et IV. (8) (8.9) (10). WSt 2630 19h 59.6 +35 16 Plures III. et IV. in acervo. 658 WSt 2631 19h 59.8 +20 37 I. II. (8) (9.10), maxima acervi, Etiam S. 732.
We see that Wilhelm Struve includes rediscoveries of 4 Messier Objects: M32 (No. 1), M53 (No. 4), M15 (No. 9), and (in the main catalog) M103 (WSt 131).
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