Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (April 15, 1793 - November 23, 1864)
Born in Altona,
died in Pulkowo.
Struve's List of 9 "Nebulae"
In his Catalog of Double and Multiple Stars
(Struve 1827, p. 88), Struve also gives a tabel of
the 9 "nebulae" he discovered, 4 of them original discoveries:
R.A. (1826) Dec D Id
1 0:33.4 +39:56 M32
2 1:25.3 +72: 0 ! NGC 629
3 9:49.2 +69:33 NGC 3077 (H I.286)
4 13: 4.4 +19: 5 M53
5 16:57.3 +24: 7 ! NGC 6210
6 18: 3.8 + 6:50 ! NGC 6572
7 18:24.0 +54:55 ! NGC 6648 (Struve 2332)
8 20:54.5 -12: 0 NGC 7009 (H IV.1)
9 21:21.6 +11:27 M15
Key:
- RA, Dec (1826)
- Right Ascension and Declination for 1826 as given by Struve
- D
- Discovery: "!" marks an original discovery by Struve
- Id
- Modern Identification
References
- F.G.W. Struve, 1827.
Catalogus Novus Stellarum Duplicarum et Multiplicarum.
J.C. Schuenmann, Dorpat, 1827.
- Kenneth Glyn Jones, 1991.
Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters. 2nd ed, Cambridge University Press,
p. 341.
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