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Old 23-11-2010, 08:15 AM
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John Herschel at Slough

John found 506 new deep sky objects (DSO) between 1825 and 1832 from Slough 22 miles (36 km) west of London. Most of these were found in 1827, 1828 and 1831.
He was searching for his fathers objects, but failed to see about 800 of them. (32%)

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