26 October
1959: On 26 October 1959, the USSR released a photo of the far side of the Moon taken by the Lunik III probe. It was the first time anybody had ...
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1867: On 27 October 1867, John Wrottesley died.
Wrottesley was an English astronomer who published The Catalogue of the RA of 1318 Stars. Wrottesley became a founder member of the Royal Astronomical Society. He recorded over 12 000 observations at his first observatory in Blackheath, London.
In 1841, his father died and John inherited the family estate of Wrottesley Hall, near Wolverhampton, England. He built an observatory there.
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25 October
1877: On 25 October 1877, Henry Norris Russell was born.Russell was an American astronomer and astrophysicist who showed the relationship between a star's brightness and its spectral type, in what ...
24 October
1851: On 24 October 1851, British astronomer William Lassell discovered Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus.Like most of the other Uranian moons Ariel is named after a Shakespearean character. The ...
23 October
1893: On 23 October 1893, Ernest Julius Öpik was born.Öpik was an Estonian astronomer best known for his studies of meteors and meteorites. His career was devoted to understanding the ...
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