Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782. John Goodricke, named after his great-grandfather Sir John Goodricke 1617–1670 (see Goodricke baronets of Ribston Hall), was...
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Algol (redirect from Algol (astronomy))
until more than a century later, when the British amateur astronomer John Goodricke also proposed a mechanism for the star's variability. In May 1783, he...
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observatories Roy A. Tucker "Goodricke-Pigott Observatory". Archived from the original on 2020-06-26. Portals: Arizona Astronomy Stars Spaceflight Outer space...
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S2CID 145568378. Hoskin, Michael (1979). "Goodricke, Pigott and the Quest for Variable Stars". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 10 (1): 23–41. Bibcode:1979JHA...
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originates from Delta Cephei in the constellation Cepheus, identified by John Goodricke in 1784. It was the first of its type to be identified. On September...
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comparing his astrometric measurements with those of the Greeks 1782 — John Goodricke notices that the brightness variations of Algol are periodic and proposes...
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first with the variability of Eta Aquilae, and a few months later by John Goodricke with the variability of Delta Cephei, the eponymous star for classical...
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changes in luminosity. Delta Cephei was discovered to be variable by John Goodricke during 1784. He describes his first observation on October 19, 1784...
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is also interested in astronomy education and in the history of astronomy, particularly focusing on the life of John Goodricke, an 18th-century deaf British...
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List of observatory codes (redirect from John J. McCarthy Observatory)
asteroids based on optical data from a large collaboration network". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 586: 22–24. arXiv:1510.07422. Bibcode:2016A&A...586A...
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