Palomar 4 was discovered by the astronomer of what nationality?
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Palomar 4 Palomar 4 is a globular cluster of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 1949 by Edwin Hubble and again in 1955 by A. G. Wilson. It is 356,000 light-years away.
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Edwin Hubble Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology and is regarded as one of the most important astronomers of all time.
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Lee Anne Willson Lee Anne Willson (born 1947) is an American astronomer.
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Jeff T. Alu Jeffrey (Jeff) Thomas Alu (born January 1, 1966) is an American musician, photographer, graphic artist, and amateur astronomer who has participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey. The asteroid 4104 Alu was named in his honour.
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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.
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Alfred Schmitt Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1973) was a French astronomer. Schmitt worked at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s. From 1955 to 1958 he was also director of the Quito Observatory in Ecuador. He extensively studied minor planets and comets and is credited with having discovered four asteroids.
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Mark Armstrong (astronomer) Mark Armstrong (born 1958) is a British amateur astronomer, a member of the British Astronomical Association. With his wife Claire Armstrong, he works from Rolvenden (obs. code 960), Kent, England, and, as of 2006, has 58 supernova discoveries (and 12 co-discoveries) to his credit in addition to two asteroids.
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Alain Maury Alain J. Maury (born 1958) is a French astronomer.
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Paul W. Hodge Paul W. Hodge (born 1934) is an American astronomer whose principal area of research is the stellar populations of galaxies.
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804 Hispania 804 Hispania is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered from Barcelona (Spain) on 20 March 1915 by Josep Comas Solá (1868–1937), the first asteroid to be discovered by a Spaniard.
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Yoshisada Shimizu Yoshisada Shimizu (清水 義定 , Shimizu Yoshisada , born 1943) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of hundreds of asteroids since 1993. An orthopaedist by profession, he is also known as a astrophotographer.
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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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554 Peraga 554 Peraga is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Paul Götz on January 8, 1905, from Heidelberg.
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W. Albert Hiltner William Albert Hiltner (1914–1991) was an American astronomer, noted for his work leading up to the discovery of interstellar polarization. He was an early practitioner of precision stellar photometry, and a pioneering observer of the optical counterparts of celestial x-ray sources. Director of the Yerkes Observatory for many years, while there he designed and built a rotatable telescope for polarization studies and developed photometric instrumentation. He was the acting director of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, then president of the Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy from 1968 until 1971, and was appointed Director of the University of Michigan Detroit Observatory in 1970,a post he held until 1982. He established MDM Observatory and led the construction of the Hiltner Telescope which is named for him.
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Edwin Francis Carpenter Edwin Francis Carpenter (November 1, 1898 – February 11, 1963) was an American astronomer.
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Harold Alden Harold Lee Alden (January 10, 1890 – February 3, 1964) was an American astronomer.
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5426 Sharp 5426 Sharp, provisional designation 1985 DD, is a bright Hungaria asteroid and suspected binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2–3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 February 1985, by American astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory, California, and named after American geologist Robert P. Sharp.
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Alan Boss Alan P. Boss (born 20 July 1951, in Lakewood, Ohio) is a United States astrophysicist and planetary scientist.
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C. Michelle Olmstead C. Michelle Olmstead (born 1969) is an American astronomer and computer scientist.
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Miguel Hurtado Miguel Hurtado (born 22 April 1978 in Málaga, Spain) is a Spanish astronomer and a software developer at OAM's La Sagra Observatory, where he participated in the discovery of minor planets, comets, and supernovae.
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Walter Ferreri Walter Ferreri (born 1948), originally from Buddusò in Sardinia, is an astronomer at the Italian Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, science writer and discoverer of minor planets.
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Seidai Miyasaka Seidai Miyasaka (宮坂 正大 , Miyasaka Seidai , born 1955) is a Japanese astronomer. The Minor Planet Center credits him with the co-discovery of four asteroids he made with Japanese astronomer Hiroshi Abe during 1993–1997.