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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]
Mary Somerville (/ ˈ s ʌ m ər v ɪ l / SUM-ər-vil; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) [1] was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath.She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
[56] [58] Caroline Herschel was honoured by the Royal Astronomical Society for this work in 1828. [59] Caroline also continued to serve as William Herschel's assistant, often taking notes while he observed at the telescope. [60] For her work as William's assistant, she was granted an annual salary of £50 by George III.
The telescope was constructed by Sir William Herschel, with the assistance of his sister Caroline Herschel, between 1785 and 1789 in Slough, with components made in Clay Hall near Windsor. The 40 ft (12 m) tube was made of iron. [1] The telescope was mounted on a fully rotatable alt-azimuth mount.
Orzabal met his first wife, Caroline, when they were teenagers in Bath, England, and they married in 1982. However, when she hit menopause in 2007, she lapsed into depression, for which she was ...
In the last chapter, he describes John Herschel's establishment of an observatory in Cape Town to catalogue the stars of the southern hemisphere in 1833. In 1836, Herschel was visited by a young Charles Darwin, returning from the Galápagos on HMS Beagle. The book was published by HarperCollins in 2008 in the UK, and by Pantheon in the US in ...
Caroline Stanbury, 48, from Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Dubai" shares more about her desire to have another baby with husband Sergio Carrallo.
William Herschel (1738–1822), astronomer and composer, discoverer of Uranus; Caroline Herschel (1750–1848), astronomer and singer, sister of Sir William Herschel; John Herschel (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer, son of Sir William Herschel; Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), astronomer, grandson of Sir William Herschel