Its interesting how many DSO's that we now see routinely with the unaided
eye were not recognized until after the invention of the telescope. The same
goes for Uranus. I guess it helps a lot to know that they are really there.
Andrew Pierce
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Subject: [TAC] Re: Ancient astronomy in the news...
Wags made a discovery -
>I was poking around looking at astro stuff on the net a week or so
>ago, and came across some interesting data at SEDS:
>History of the Discovery of Deep Sky Objects:
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/history/deepskyd.html
Maaan, I have jumped up and down about that page at least 3 times
right here on TAC. It's killer, glad you got there. There was this
astronomer, Giovanni Bautista Hodierna, who did the first catalog
devoted to DSO's, and made at least 9 discoveries of his own. He was
forgotten and only rediscovered in the 1980's. What an adventure.
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