NGC 7301 was discovered by an American astronomer in what year?
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NGC 7301 NGC 7301 is a barred spiral galaxy located around 308000000 ly away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered by American astronomer Francis Preserved Leavenworth In 1886.
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Francis Preserved Leavenworth Francis Preserved Leavenworth (born September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon, Indiana; died November 12, 1928; a.k.a. "Frank Leavenworth") was an American astronomer. He discovered many New General Catalogue objects together with Frank Muller and Ormond Stone. They used a telescope with a 66-cm aperture at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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NGC 1313 NGC 1313 (also known as the Topsy Turvy Galaxy) is a field galaxy and a barred spiral galaxy discovered by the Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 27 September 1826. It has a diameter of about 50,000 light-years, or one-third the size of the Milky Way.
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3031 Houston 3031 Houston, provisional designation 1984 CX, is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 February 1984, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. It was named after American amateur astronomer Walter Scott Houston.
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John V. McClusky John V. McClusky is an American astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.
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Philip Childs Keenan Philip Childs Keenan (March 31, 1908 – April 20, 2000) was an American astronomer.
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Edwin Foster Coddington Edwin Foster Coddington (June 24, 1870 – December 21, 1950) was an American astronomer and discoverer of astronomical objects.
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NGC 1 NGC 1 is an intermediate spiral galaxy of the morphological type Sbc, located 210 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered on 30 September 1861 by Heinrich d'Arrest, who described it as "faint, small, round, between 11th and 14th magnitude stars" (to the north and south).
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Alfred Harrison Joy Alfred Harrison Joy (September 23, 1882, Greenville, Illinois – April 18, 1973, Pasadena, California) was an astronomer best known for his work on stellar distances, the radial motion of stars, and variable stars.
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Edwin Francis Carpenter Edwin Francis Carpenter (November 1, 1898 – February 11, 1963) was an American astronomer.
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William Hammond Wright William Hammond Wright (November 4, 1871 – May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer and the director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942.
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NGC 7302 Coordinates: -14+-07/60+-15/3600&zoom=ln100000/ln10+1 round 0&show_grid=1&show_constellation_lines=1&show_constellation_boundaries=1&show_const_names=1&show_galaxies=1&img_source=IMG_all 22 32 23, −14° 07′ 15″ NGC 7302 is a Lenticular galaxy located around 124 million Light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. NGC 7302 was discovered by British astronomer William Herschel on October 3, 1785 and was rediscovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on August 8, 1896 and was listed in the IC catalogue as IC 5228. It is also part of a group of interatcing galaxies.
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NGC 424 NGC 424 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Sculptor. It was discovered on November 30, 1837 by John Herschel.
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Harold D. Babcock Harold Delos Babcock (January 24, 1882 – April 8, 1968) was an American astronomer, and the father of Horace W. Babcock. He was of English and German ancestry. He was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin before completing high school in Los Angeles and was accepted in the University of California, Berkeley in 1901. He worked at the Mount Wilson Observatory from 1907 until 1948. He specialized in solar spectroscopy and mapped the distribution of magnetic fields over the Sun's surface. With his son he revealed the existence of strong magnetic fields in certain stars. In 1953 he won the Bruce Medal.
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James Ferguson (American astronomer) James Ferguson (August 31, 1797 – September 26, 1867) was a Scottish-born American astronomer and engineer, who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America (31 Euphrosyne). Starting in 1847, he worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. As an engineer, he helped to build the Erie canal.
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Frederick Slocum Frederick Slocum (February 6, 1873 – December 4, 1944) was an American astronomer.
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Arthur Hoag Arthur Allen Hoag (1921–1999) was an American astronomer most famous for his discovery of Hoag's object in 1950. He was the son of Lynne Arthur Hoag (Harvard Medical School, Cornell, and University of Michigan faculty member) and wife Wylma Wood Hoag. He had two sisters, Mary Alice (born 1922) and Elizabeth Ruth (born 1919), a son named Tom and a daughter named Stefanie. His mother and sister Mary (aged 3) died on June 1, 1926 when the "Washington Irving" was rammed by an oil barge and sunk on the North River.
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Gerald Neugebauer Gerald "Gerry" Neugebauer (3 September 1932 – 26 September 2014) was an American astronomer known for his pioneering work in infrared astronomy.
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NGC 6293 NGC 6293 is a globular cluster located in the constellation Ophiuchus. Its Shapley–Sawyer Concentration Class is IV. It was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on 8 July 1885. Like many other globular clusters, its distance is not well known; it may be anywhere from to light-years away from Earth.
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Donald Howard Menzel Donald Howard Menzel (April 11, 1901 – December 14, 1976) was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the US. He discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae. The minor planet 1967 Menzel was named in his honor.
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Robert Gendler Robert Gendler (born September 30, 1957) is an American amateur astronomer and astrophotographer.
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Robert Woodrow Wilson Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB). The award purse was also shared with a third scientist, Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, for unrelated work.