Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793-1864) (original) (raw)
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (April 15, 1793 - November 23, 1864)
Born in Altona, died in Pulkowo.
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 Id1 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:
RA, Dec (1826)
Right Ascension and Declination for 1826 as given by Struve
D
Discovery: "!" marks an original discovery by Struve
Id
Modern Identification
Links * Wilhelm Struve images and information, NGC/IC observers page References * F.G.W. Struve, 1827. Catalogus Novus Stellarum Duplicarum et Multiplicarum. J.C. Schuenmann, Dorpat, 1827. * Kenneth Glyn Jones, 1991. Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters. 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press, p. 341. [ADS: 1991mnsc.book.....J].
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