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The Discoverers
Most of the 111 Bright NGC Objects were found by the following 5 men.
Discoverer, Number of objects
William Herschel 40
James Dunlop 30
Nicolas Lacaille 13
John Herschel 6
Edward Barnard 4
5 others found 2 objects each and 8 found 1 each.
John Herschel only found 211 of Dunlop’s 629 clusters and nebulae.
What happened to the other 418 objects?
Herschel was disappointed because he thought “the cream of the southern hemisphere had already been skimmed” by Dunlop, according to Agnes Clerke (1901, p.160)
Last edited by glenc; 09-09-2006 at 11:51 AM.
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