FIVE EARLY SOUTHERN ASTRONOMERS
Three men discovered most of the far southern objects in the NGC catalogue.
1 Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Cape Town, 1751-52, 0.5” refractor
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...s/lacaille.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Louis_de_Lacaille
2 James Dunlop, Sydney, 1826, 9” reflector
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...ons/dunlop.htm
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010322b.htm
3 John Herschel, Cape Town, 1834-38, 18.5” reflector
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...herschel_j.htm
http://www.nndb.com/people/054/000086793/
The following link shows their observing sites.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ghlight=dunlop
Two men discovered most of the far southern objects in the IC catalogue.
1 DeLisle Stewart, Arequipa Peru, 1898-1901
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...ns/stewart.htm
2 Royal Harwood Frost, Arequipa Peru, 1902-1905
http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/n...sons/frost.htm
Stewart and Frost made 4-hour photographic plates with the 24" f/5.6 Bruce refractor.
For other NGC & IC observers see
NGC/IC observers by Wolfgang Steinicke
http://www.ngcic.org/Steinicke/HNGC/obs_e.htm