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Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born in the town of Hanover Germany on 16 March 1750. She was the eighth child and fourth daughter of Isaak Herschel (1707–1767), a self-taught oboist, and his wife, Anna Ilse Moritzen (1710–1789).
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.
William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory House in Slough, England. It used a 48-inch (120 cm) diameter primary mirror with a 40-foot-long (12 m) focal length (hence its name "Forty-Foot" ).
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
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.
The Herschel daughters in the 1860s (from left to right): Constance Anne, Caroline Emilia Mary, Margaret Louisa, Isabella Herschel, Francisca ('Fancy'), and Matilda Rose (unknown photographer) [9] Caroline Emilia Mary Herschel (31 March 1830 – 29 January 1909), [ 9 ] who married the soldier and politician Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
Having published extensively on the Herschel family, Winterburn began to write The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel in 2012. [12] [13] The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel focuses on the ten most productive years of Caroline Herschel's academic career, working with her brother William Herschel's telescope and finding comets. [14]