Deep Sky Astronomers (original) (raw)

Discoverers of Deep Sky Objects

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)

Persons important for the Messier Catalog

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 Glyn Jones, Kenneth (1915-1995) - added M110 Williams, William C. - identified M91

Mallas, John (c. 1927-1975) - identified M40 Kreimer, Evered (c. 1922-2016) Vehrenberg, Hans (1910-1991) Machholz, Don (1952-2022) Philbert, Jean-Paul (1928-2018) 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

Comet Discoverers and Hunters

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

Other persons important in Messier's life

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)

Astronomers important for deep sky astronomy

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)