John Dreyer

John Dreyer

male, deceased (1926)
Leviathan of Parsonstown, NewGeneralCatalogue, Historian of science, Irish, Danish, crater
John Louis Emil Dreyer (February 13 1852 - September 14 1926) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. He was born Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer in Copenhagen. In...

Ralph Copeland

male, deceased (1905)
Astronomer, Scottish, greenland, venus, mauritius, ngc…NewGeneralCatalogue
Ralph Copeland (September 3, 1837 - October 27, 1905) was a Scottish astronomer and was appointed the 3rd Astronomer Royal for Scotland. He was...
Ernst Hartwig

Ernst Hartwig

male, deceased (1923)
Astronomer, German, crater, moon, m31, impact crater…NewGeneralCatalogue
Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (January 14,1851 - May 3, 1923) was a German astronomer. He discovered a new star in M31 (the "Andromeda Nebula") on...

Philibert Jacques Melotte

deceased (1961)
nds Philibert Jacques Melotte, jupiter, asteroid, Asteroid discoverer, British, catalogue…NewGeneralCatalogue
Philibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as...

Hans-Emil Schuster

male, 75 years old
3271 Ul, 1978 CA, asteroid, 3908 Nyx, galaxy, astronomical unit…NewGeneralCatalogue
Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer (retired since October 1991). He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern...
Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer

Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer

male, deceased (1873)
Astronomer, Swiss, Russian, ngc, Moscow University, Königsberg…NewGeneralCatalogue
Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer was a Swiss astronomer who travelled to Moscow in 1845 to become Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Survey...