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Caroline Lucretia Herschel [1] (/ ˈ h ɜːr ʃ əl, ˈ h ɛər ʃ əl / HUR-shəl, HAIR-shəl, [2] German: [kaʁoˈliːnə ˈhɛʁʃl̩]; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German astronomer, [3] whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. [4]
The NGC expanded and consolidated the cataloguing work of William and Caroline Herschel, and John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. Objects south of the celestial equator are catalogued somewhat less thoroughly, but many were included based on observation by John Herschel or James Dunlop.
NGC 2360 (also known as Caroline's Cluster [3] or Caldwell 58) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. It was discovered on 26 February 1783 [ 4 ] by Caroline Herschel , who described it as a "beautiful cluster of pretty compressed stars near 1/2 degree in diameter". [ 5 ]
The Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (CN) is an astronomical catalogue of nebulae first published in 1786 by William Herschel, with the assistance of his sister Caroline Herschel. It was later expanded into the General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (GC) by his son, John Herschel, in 1864.
NGC 7789 (also known as Caroline's Rose, [4] Caroline's Haystack, [5] or the White Rose Cluster) is an open cluster in Cassiopeia that was discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783. Her brother William Herschel included it in his catalog as H VI.30. This cluster is also known as the "White Rose" Cluster or "Caroline's Rose" Cluster because when ...
C. Herschel (upper left) cuts across the wrinkle ridge Dorsum Heim in this oblique view from Apollo 17. C. Herschel is a small lunar impact crater that lies on the western part of Mare Imbrium. It is named after German astronomer Caroline Herschel. [1] It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation that has not undergone significant erosion.
[a] [6] Caroline Herschel, the younger sister of William Herschel, independently discovered it in 1783, thinking it had not yet been catalogued by Messier. [7] Walter Scott Houston (died 1993) described its appearance: [8] Some observers mention the cluster as having the shape of a starfish.
NGC 7380 is a young [4] open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. The surrounding emission nebulosity is known colloquially as the Wizard Nebula, which spans an angle of 25′.