Arthur von Auwers

Obituary: MNRAS 76, 284 (1916); Obs. 38, 177 (1915); Proc. Roy. Soc. 92, XVI (1915), AN 200, 185 (1915)

Auwers found 2 NGC-objects; only one was new: NGC 6503 (#37 in his list of new nebulae, see below), found when he was still a pupil in Göttingen, owning a 2.6" Fraunhofer refractor. He showed it to his friend Winnecke, studying at Göttingen University (see Winnecke's report in AN 45, 247 (1857)). The other object, NGC 4402 (#30), a galaxy in Virgo, was found with the 6.2" Merz heliometer at Königsberg Observatory, installed in 1829. The discoverer is J. Stoney (Birr Castle). Auwers compiled all new nebulae know up to 1862 in his work William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen (Königsberg 1862): Historic Au

D N NI Y M D Ap I T Discoverer Con Type S Author Title Source
  N 4402 1862 3 5 6,3 Rr v Stoney J. 13.4.1849 VIR Sb 1 Auwers, A.  Aus einem Schreiben des Herrn Dr. Auwers  AN [1391] 58, 361-364 (1862)
1 N 6503 1854 7 22 6,3 Rr v   DRA Sc 1 Auwers, A.  William Herschel's Verzeichnisse von Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen  Königsberg 1862

 

Königsberg Observatory and 6.2" Merz Heliometer