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Hipparchus
Greek astronomer

William Herschel
British-German astronomer

Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

Edmond Halley
British scientist

Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer

Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer

Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer

Otto Heckmann
German astronomer

John Flamsteed
British astronomer

Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer

Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer

Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Prussian astronomer

William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer

Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer
Danish astronomer

Edward Charles Pickering
American physicist and astronomer

Johann Bayer
German astronomer

Charles Messier
French astronomer

Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer

Lewis Boss
American astronomer
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