Into the Dungeons of Astronomy

Expanding list of names of obscure astronomers, selenographers (!), and other scientists, mentioned in T.W.Webb's Volume 2: THE STARS (Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes, Dover, revised edition, 1962) (a step-by-step exploration and investigation of one of the finest sky observer's guides)

List compiled by Danny Caes, Ghent-Belgium.
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Note:

MOON-related subjects are mentioned throughout the list (mostly the IAU's lunar nomenclature)

A

• Acocks (page 39, Struve 178, Aries) (page 210, Struve 138, Pisces) (was Acocks perhaps the same as Alcocks on page 253?)(see Struve 1819, Virgo).
• Adams (mentioned on several pages) (Adams is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Aitken (mentioned throughout the book as "A") (Aitken is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Amici (page 69, intr. CANIS MINOR) (Amici is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Anderson (mentioned on several pages) (Anderson is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Anthelm (page 258, Anthelm's Nova in Vulpecula).
• Antoniadi (page VI, Preface to Dover Edition) (Antoniadi is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Argelander (mentioned throughout the book as "Ar") (Argelander is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Astbury (page 46, RT Aurigae) (page 258, RS Vulpeculae).
• Auwers (mentioned on several pages) (Auwers is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).

B
(this is not yet the entire bulk of the B names, if all of them are included in here, it (this list) will look like the one and only BIG BANG!!!) (note that there has always been a large amount of astronomers with B surnames!).

• Babinet (page 73, footnote intr. CASSIOPEIA).
• Backhouse (mentioned on several pages).
• Bailey (page 65, Messier 3, Canes Venatici) (page 227, Theta Serpentis, aka Alya).
• Ball (page 250, 17 Virginis).
• Barlow (page 203, Eta Persei, aka Struve 307) (the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Barlow?).
• Barnard (mentioned throughout the book, list to be compiled) (Barnard is an IAU lunar crater name).
• Barnes (page 215, Zeta Sagittarii).
• Bauschinger (page 161, Y Librae).
• Baxendell (mentioned throughout the book, list to be compiled) (must be the same Baxendell known of Baxendell's Unphotographable Nebula in Aquarius).
• Bayer (mentioned on several pages).
• Becker (page 155, V Leonis).
• Bessel (mentioned on several pages) (Bessel is an IAU lunar crater name).
• Bevis (page 237, Messier 1 - the Crab nebula, Taurus).
• Biesbroeck (mentioned throughout the book as "Bies").
• Bird (mentioned throughout the book, list to be compiled).
• Birmingham (mentioned throughout the book as "B").
• Birt (page 72, intr. CASSIOPEIA) (could this have been the selenographer William Radcliff Birt?).
• Bishop (page 171, Eta Lyrae) (mentioned on this page because of Bishop's 7-inch telescope) (page 205, Epsilon Persei) (again, because of Bishop's 7-inch).
• Bode (page 246, Messier 81 and Messier 82, Bode's Nebulae, Ursa Major).
• Boeddicker (page 227, Theta Serpentis, aka Alya).
• Boguslawsky (page 254, T Virginis) (this is probably the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Boguslawsky).
• Bok, Bart J. (page 22B; photograph of the Eta Carinae Nebula) (Bok is also an IAU lunar crater name) (for both Bart and his wife Priscilla).
• Bond (mentioned on several pages) (Bond is also an IAU lunar crater name).
• Bond, R. (page 34, Espin-Birmingham 576, Aquila).
• Bond II (page 65, Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius) (page 192, Messier 42, Orion).
• Bonn (mentioned on several pages) (Bonn could be the name of a catalog of binary star systems).
• Borrelly (page 89, S Ceti) (page 161, S Librae).
• Boss (page 191, V Orionis) (page 230, intr. TAURUS) (is this the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Boss?).
• Bowyer (this is one of the most frequently mentioned names in Webb's Volume 2, but... who was Bowyer? There's nothing about Webb's Bowyer online, except another astronomer: Charles Stuart Bowyer, born in 1934... he can't be the one of T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects...) (or ???) (note: there's a pre-1934 Bowyer in the article On the Observations of the reported Dusky Ring outside the Bright Rings of the Planet Saturn, see page 466 in Mysterious Universe, W.R.Corliss).
• Brisbane (page 268).
• Brown (page 77, V Cassiopeiae) (the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Brown?).
• Brown, Miss (page 227, Theta Serpentis, aka Alya).
• Browning (page 10, footnote in the chapter Double Stars, Clusters, and Nebulae).
• Bruce, W.C. (page 211, Kappa 1 and Kappa 2 Piscium).
• Bryant (mentioned throughout the book on almost every page, list to be compiled).
• Buckingham (page 172, Espin-Birmingham 596, Lyra).
• Buffham (mentioned throughout the book, list to be compiled).
• Burg (page 220, Alpha Scorpii, aka Antares).
• Burnham (mentioned throughout the book as the Greek letter "Beta").
• Burton (mentioned on several pages).

C

• Cacciatore, Niccolo (page 114, intr. DELPHINUS; the case of the curious starnames Sualocin (Nicolaus) and Rotanev (Venator); Nicolaus Venator or Niccolo Cacciatore) (see also Starnames, their lore and meaning, R.H. Allen).
• Calver (page 168, the 24-inch Calver Reflector) (page 255, Messier 86 in Virgo, and the 15-1/2 inch Calver).
• Campbell (page 230, intr. TAURUS).
• Campbell, Leon (page 112, SS Cygni) (this is one of the few astronomers who's full name is mentioned).
• Cannon (several pages).
• Cape (pages 127, 183) (probably a catalog of binary star systems, or perhaps a related observatory).
• Carrington (page 230, intr. TAURUS).
• Ceraski (pages 84, 85, 177) (also known as the IAU lunar crater name Ceraski).
• Chacornac (mentioned throughout the book, sometimes as Charcornac with an extra "r") (Chacornac is another one of the IAU's many lunar crater names).
• Chandler (mentioned on several pages).
• Chapman (mentioned on several pages).
• Cincinatti (page 252, 54 Virginis) (of course, this must have been some sort of catalogue of binary star systems, I can't imagine an astronomer who's surname was Cincinatti).
• Clark (page 194, DG Orionis; one of the Trapezium stars, aka Clark's Star).
• Clark, A. (page 66) (Alvan G. Clark? See Clark, A.G.).
• Clark, A.G. (page 194) (probably Alvan G. Clark).
• C.Mayer / Mayer, C. (page 19, Gamma Andromedae, aka Alamak) (probably Christian Mayer who's also on the moon as the IAU crater name C.Mayer).
• Coleman (page 19, Struve 162, Andromeda).
• Copeland (pages 86, 107, 110, 186) (was this Ralph Copeland of the cluster of galaxies known as Copeland's Septet in Leo?).
• Corder (page 46, Nova T Aurigae).
• Cordoba (pages 72, 126, 127) (probably related to the Cordoba Durchmusterung of southern hemisphere stars).
• Cottam (page 6, footnote in the chapter Double Stars, Clusters, and Nebulae) (Cottam's Charts of the Constellations).
• Curtiss (page 224, R Scuti).
• Cysatus (page 192) (Cysatus is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).

D

• Darby (page 259, Messier 27 - the Dumbbell Nebula, Vulpecula).
• D'Arrest (mentioned throughout the book as "D'A") (D'Arrest is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Dawes (page 187, Eta Orionis, aka Dawes 5) (page 189, 42 Orionis, aka Dawes 4) (Dawes is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Dawson (page 248, Alpha Ursae Minoris, aka Polaris).
• Deichmuller (mentioned on many pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Dembowski (mentioned throughout the book as "De") (Dembowski is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Denning, W.F. (mentioned on several pages) (Denning is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• D'Esterre (page 207, Nova 2, Perseus) (probably Charles Robert D'Esterre, 1876-1943, see Obituary Notices).
• de Vaucouleurs, Gerard (page VI, Preface to Dover Edition).
• Doberck (mentioned throughout the book as "Do") (William Doberck).
• Donati (page 48, intr. BOOTES) (about the appearance of Donati's Comet in Bootes, very near the lucida Arcturus) (Donati is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Doolittle (mentioned throughout the book as "Doo") (must be Eric Doolittle, 1869-1920) (Obituary Notice of Professor Eric Doolittle, by T.J.J.See).
• Doubiago (page 229, 9 Sextantis) (this is probably the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Dubyago).
• Dreyer (page VII, Preface to Dover Edition) (Dreyer's New General Catalogue).
• Duncan (page 138, Otto Struve 324, Hercules).
• Duner (mentioned throughout the book as "Du").

E

• Earl of Rosse (mentioned throughout the book) (what was the real name of that person?).
• Eddington (page 16, intr. ANDROMEDA) (page 205, Otto Struve 531, Perseus).
• Edgecombe (page 234, 103 Tauri).
• El Battani (page 113, intr. DELPHINUS) (must be the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Albategnius).
• El Fergani (page 41, intr. AURIGA) (must be the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Alfraganus).
• Ellison (mentioned on several pages).
• Enebo (page 132, Nova II, Gemini).
• Erck (page 166, Alpha Lyrae; Wega) (see also Volume 1; The Solar System) (probably Wentworth Erck).
• Espin, T.E. (mentioned throughout the book as "Es") (Espin is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).

F

• Fabricius (page 89, Omicron Ceti, aka Mira Ceti) (Fabricius is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Fath (page 22, NGC 224/ Messier 31, Andromeda) (could this have been the same Fath of the galaxy known as Fath 703 in Libra?).
• Fearnley (page 245, VY Ursae Majoris).
• Flamsteed (page 14, in the chapter Double Stars, Clusters, and Nebulae) (page 36, footnote Argo Navis) (Flamsteed is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Fleming (mentioned on several pages, list to be compiled).
• Fletcher (mentioned on several pages).
• Franklin-Adams (page 227, Theta Serpentis, aka Alya).
• Franks (mentioned throughout the book as "Fr").
• Fox (page 138, Rho Herculis, aka Struve 2161).
• Frost (page 207, 48 Persei) (page 211, Beta Piscium).
• Furner (mentioned on many pages, list to be compiled).

G

• Gage (page 172, Espin-Birmingham 559, Lyra).
• Galileo (mentioned on several pages).
• Galle (page 41, intr. AURIGA).
• Geelmuyden (page 122, R Draconis).
• Glasenapp (page 139, Struve 2165, Hercules).
• Goodacre (mentioned on several pages) (Goodacre is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Goodricke (page 82, Delta Cephei) (page 169, Beta Lyrae, aka Sheliak).
• Goldschmidt (mentioned on several pages) (Goldschmidt is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Gore (mentioned on many pages, list to be compiled).
• Gould (mentioned on many pages, list to be compiled).
• Grover (mentioned throughout the book as "Gr") (who was Grover really?).
• Guthnick (page 92, 40 Comae Berenices) (Guthnick is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).

H

• Hagen (page 10, footnote in the chapter Double Stars, Clusters, and Nebulae).
• Hall (mentioned throughout the book as "Ha").
• Halley (page 143, Messier 13, Hercules).
• Harding (mentioned on several pages).
• Heis (mentioned on several pages).
• Hencke (mentioned on several pages).
• Henry (page 254, Y Virginis).
• Henry, Brothers (page 237, NGC 1435; nebula in the Pleiades star cluster, Taurus).
• Herschel I (mentioned thoughout the book as "H") (Sir William Herschel).
• Herschel II (mentioned throughout the book as "h") (Sir John Herschel) (note; both the Herschels have "their" crater on the moon).
• Hevelius/ Hevel (mentioned on several pages).
• Hind (mentioned on several pages) (Hind is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Hipparchus (page 48, intr. BOOTES).
• Holden (mentioned throughout the book as "Hn").
• Holmes (mentioned on several pages).
• Hooke (page 39, Gamma Arietis, aka Struve 180) (Hooke is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Hough (mentioned throughout the book as "Ho").
• Howe (mentioned on several pages).
• Huggins (mentioned on many pages, list to be compiled) (Huggins is also one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Humboldt (mentioned on several pages, list to be compiled).
• Hunt (mentioned on several pages).
• Hussey (mentioned throughout the book as "Hu").

I

• Ibn Yunis (page 113, intr. DELPHINUS) (this must be the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Ibn Yunus).
• Ichinohe (page 223, RR Scuti).
• Ingall (page 74) (page 259).
• Innes (mentioned throughout the book as "I").

J

• Jacob (mentioned on several pages).
• Jansen (page 110).
• Johnson (page 9).
• Jonckheere (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled) (Robert Jonckheere).
• Jouffra (page 36, Struve 1104, Argo Navis) (the same as Jouffray on page 178? Rho Ophiuchi).

K

• Kapteyn (page 16).
• Karlinski (page 96, R Corvi).
• Keeler (page 230).
• Kemf (mentioned on several pages) (the same as Kempf on page 109?).
• Kepler (mentioned on several pages).
• Key (mentioned on several pages).
• King (page 245).
• Kirch (page 109) (page 244, Gottfried Kirch).
• Kitchener (page 186).
• Klein (page 144) (page 242).
• Knott (mentioned throughout the book as "K", full surname on page 111; U Cygni).
• Knott, G. (mentioned on several pages).
• Koch (page 155).
• Kruger (page 165, R Lyncis) (is this the same as Krueger, mentioned on pages 77, 172, and 206?). Yes, I really turn this booklet inside-out! (Danny C.).
• Kukarkin (page VII).
• Kunowsky (page 190).

L

• Lacaille (mentioned throughout the book as "L").
• Lacchini, Giovanni B. (page VI).
• Lalande (mentioned throughout the book as "Ll ").
• Lamont (page 33) (page 200).
• Lamont, R. (page 34).
• Lasby (page 68, see "star" in Canis Major) (in those days, many stars were known as... "stars").
• Lassell (page 167) (page 185).
• Leavitt (page 229) (page 245) (the same as Leavett on page 194?).
• Leland (page 229, S Sextantis).
• Lewis, T. (mentioned throughout the book, list of pages to be compiled).
• Liapounov (page 193).
• Lindemann (page 53).
• Lindsay, Lord (page 3) (page 85).
• Lohse (page 141).
• Lowe (page 225).
• Lunt (page 229, Struve 1470, Sextans).
• Luther (page 211).
• Lynn (page 66).

M

• Maclear (page 67).
• Madler (page 163).
• Maiebckato (page 94, Nu Coronae Borealis).
• Main (page 186).
• Margareta, Maria (the scientific wife of Gottfried Kirch, page 244, Zeta Ursae Majoris, aka Mizar) (Maria Margarethe Winckelmann-Kirch).
• Markree Cat. (page 236) (probably some sort of star catalogue).
• Marth (page 201, S Pegasi) (this is probably the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Marth).
• Mather, Dr. (page 240).
• Maw, W.H. (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled) (this could be the same Maw as the one who observed a reddish colored spot in crater South).
• Mayer, C. (page 19) (probably Christian Mayer who's also on the moon as the IAU crater name C.Mayer).
• Merrill (page 111) (page 230).
• Messier (mentioned throughout the book as "M").
• Milburn, W. (page X).
• Miller (mentioned on several pages).
• Miraldi (page 201, Messier 15, Pegasus) (I must say, I only knew about the IAU's lunar crater name Maraldi, not about Miraldi).
• Miss Mitchell (page 43).
• Mitchel (mentioned on several pages).
• Monck (page 98, intr. CYGNUS).
• Montanari (page 148).
• Moore (page 83).
• Morin (page 48).
• Morton (mentioned on several pages).
• Mostlin (page 183) (page 230).
• Motherwell (page 40, Struve 305, Aries) (page 141, Struve 2291, Hercules) (page 160, Burnham 119, Libra).
• Muller (mentioned on several pages).

N
(only one N name?)

• Noble (page 100, Delta Cygni, aka Struve 2579).

O

• Oliver (page 125, Burnham 744, Eridanus) (page 222, Burnham 395, Sculptor) (might there be a connection with the IAU's lunar crater name Olivier?).
• Oudemans (page 236, S Tauri).

P

• Packer (page 161) (page 174).
• Palisa (page 161) (page 220) (page 255).
• Parenago (page VII).
• Paul (page 38, S Antliae).
• Pease (page 22).
• Pechule (page 214, X Sagittae) (probably Carl Frederick Pechule).
• Perry (page 76, I Cassiopeiae).
• Peters (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Phillips (mentioned throughout the book as "Ph").
• Phillips, T.E.R. (page IX) (page X).
• Piazzi (page 160).
• Piazzi Smyth (mentioned throughout the book as "P.Sm").
• Pickering (mentioned throughout the book, list of pages to be compiled).
• Pigott (page 34, Eta Aquilae).
• Piggott (page 223, R Scuti) (were Pigott and Piggott perhaps one and the same person?).
• Plummer (page 66, Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius).
• Pogson (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Proctor (page 6).
• Ptolemy (page 41).

Q
(none)
R
(this is a rather short list, one should expect a very long list for the R names...) (only 10 R names so far...).

• Ragoonath (page 274).
• Ranyard (page 143, Messier 13, Hercules).
• Reitsma (page 274).
• Respighi (page 272) (Respighi is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Riccioli (mentioned on several pages) (Riccioli is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Ritchey (mentioned on several pages) (Ritchey is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Roberts (page 274) (Roberts is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Rosse (mentioned on several pages) (Rosse is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).
• Roy (page 254, RU Virginis) (is there a possible connection with Felix Chemla Lamech's not-accepted lunar crater name Roy, aka Hesiodus B?).
• Russell (page 270) (Russell is one of the IAU's lunar crater names).

S
(as expected, a long list).

• Sadler (mentioned throughout the book as "Sa").
• Safarik (mentioned on several pages).
• Savary (page 243, Xi Ursae Majoris).
• Sawyer (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Schaeberle (page 41) (page 68).
• Schmidt (mentioned on several pages).
• Schom. (?) (page 216).
• Schonfeld (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Schwab (page 214, U Sagittae) (Schwabe?).
• Schwerd (page 61, R Cancri).
• Scott (mentioned on several pages).
• Seabroke (page 115, Struve 2725, Delphinus).
• Secchi (page 188).
• See (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled) (Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, one of the most colorful figures in the history of astronomy).
• Seidel (page 48).
• Semerau, Walter (page VI).
• Seneca (page 66) (page 193).
• Sestini (page 10, chapter DOUBLE STARS, CLUSTERS, AND NEBULAE) (probably Benedict Sestini).
• Silbernagel (page 173, Messier 57, Lyra).
• Sims (page 186, Rho-1 Orionis, aka Struve 654).
• Skinner (page 89, W Ceti).
• Slack (page 85, Mu Cephei, aka Herschel's Garnet Star).
• Smith, T.T. (mentioned on several pages).
• Smyth (mentioned on several pages).
• Snow (page 72, intr. CASSIOPEIA).
• Sola (page 127, Omega Fornacis) (this was probably the Spanish astronomer Josep Comas i Sola) (note: Comas Sola was one of the additional crater names in the list of Hugh P.Wilkins and Patrick Moore, see their legendary book THE MOON) (by the way, Fly and Collision of Comas Sola was one of the quite chaotic pieces made by German electro-krautrock band Tangerine Dream of the late Edgar Froese).
• South (mentioned on several pages as "S", list of pages to be compiled).
• Steavenson (page 16) (page 207).
• Stephan (page 113, NGC 7027, Cygnus).
• Stone (page 48).
• Stone, O. (page 158) (probably Ormond Stone).
• Storey (mentioned throughout the book, list of pages to be compiled).
• Struve (mentioned on several pages).
• Struve, Otto (mentioned throughout the book as "O-Sigma") (Otto Struve).
• Struve, Wilhelm (page 15).
• Squire (page 167, Epsilon Lyrae; the famous Double-Double binary system).
• Sufi (page 21) (page 253).

T
(as with the R list, the T list is also rather short, only five names...).

• Talmage (page 60, Phi-2 Cancri, aka Struve 1223).
• Tempel (page 237, NGC 1435 nebula in the Pleiades star cluster, Taurus).
• Temple (page 237, NGC 1435 nebula in the Pleiades star cluster, Taurus) (were Temple and Tempel perhaps one and the same person?).
• Ticehurst (page 199, Xi Pegasi).
• Turner (page 89) (page 132) (page 206).

U
(none)
V

• Venator, Nicolaus (see Cacciatore, Niccolo).
• Vogel (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled) (could be the same as the IAU's lunar crater name Vogel).
• von Littrow, Carl (page 230, intr. TAURUS) (probably Karl Ludwig von Littrow).

W

• Ward (mentioned throughout the book as "Wa").
• Webb (mentioned throughout the book as "W").
• Wells (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Wendell (page 211) (page 245) (page 254).
• Whitley (page 19) (page 39).
• Williams (page 111, SZ Cygni).
• Wilson (mentioned on several pages).
• Winlock (page 151) (page 237).
• Winnecke (mentioned on several pages).
• With (mentioned throughout the book, list of page numbers to be compiled).
• Wolf (mentioned on several pages, list of pages to be compiled).
• Wolf-Rayet (page 109) (page 110).
• Wollaston (page 166, Alpha Lyrae, aka Wega).

X
(none)
Y

• Young (page 23, Messier 31, Andromeda).

Z
(none)

See also SKY CATALOGUE 2000.0, Volume 2: Double Stars, Variable Stars, and Nonstellar Objects - Edited by Alan Hirshfeld and Roger W. Sinnott (see page X, which shows an interesting list of double star observers, Table I: Double Star Designation Codes).
- DannyCaes Aug 8, 2015