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    Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (22 March 1799 – 17 February 1875) was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses...
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    some of his qualified students. The most prominent of them was Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, his successors were Otto August Rosenberger and August Ludwig...
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  • 1947) Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875), Prussian astronomer Friedrich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf (born 1942), politician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel...
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    University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn), is a public research...
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    after Benzenberg died, he joined the Bonn Observatory under Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. Here, Schmidt measured the visual magnitudes and positions for...
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    000 stars by accuracy of 10". 1903, Bonner Durchmusterung – by Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander and collaborators, circa 460,000 stars. 15th century BC – The...
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    testimonial medals, awarded to John Couch Adams, George Biddell Airy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, George Bishop, George Everest, Peter Andreas Hansen, Karl Ludwig...
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    he visited the Bonn Observatory and studied astronomy under Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. In 1853, he was appointed assistant, and in the following year...
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    Circumpolar Stars (1838). Its high proper motion was noted by Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander in 1842. It is 29.9 light-years (9.2 parsecs) from the Sun as...
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    Faidit, "La comète impériale de 1811", Les Presses du Midi, 2012; Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Ueber die Bahn des grossen cometen von 1811, (Tr. Table of the...
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