Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters

Obituray: AN 125, 127 (1890)

Peters found 22 NGC-objects with the 13.5" f/13.3 Spencer refractor at Litchfield observatory, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. (erected in 1858); 15 objects were new.The magazine Copernicus, an International Journal of Astronomy, where most discoveries are published, was editied by J.L.E. Dreyer and R. Copeland, but only three volumes appeared (I: 1881, II: 1882, III: 1884).

D N NI Y M D Ap I T Discoverer Observer Con Type S ID Author Title Source
  N 475 1865?     13,5 Rr v Marth 3.11.1864   PSC E0 1 IC 97 (Bigourdan 12.10.1888) Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)
1 N 787 1865 2 27 13,5 Rr v   Tempel 9.11.1879
Stone 1885?
CET Sb 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)
1 N 3054 1859 4 3 13,5 Rr v   Stone 14.1.1886 HYA SBb 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)
  N 3153 1880?     13,5 Rr v Herschel W. 19.3.1784 Todd 5.2.1878 LEO Sc 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
  N 3328 1880 3 27 13,5 Rr v Tempel 21.5.1879   LEO *2 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 3492 1880     13,5 Rr v     LEO E4 1        
  N 4116 1881?     13,5 Rr v Stoney B. 6.3.1851   VIR SBc 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)
1 N 4182 1881     13,5 Rr v     VIR * 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
  N 4255 1881?     13,5 Rr v Voigt Jun? 1865   VIR SB0 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4276 1881     13,5 Rr v     VIR SBc 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4307 1881     13,5 Rr v   Tempel 17.3.1883 VIR Sb 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4309 1881     13,5 Rr v     VIR SB0-a 1        
1 N 4347 1881 5 5 13,5 Rr v     VIR * 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4353 1881     13,5 Rr v     VIR IBm 1 IC 3266 (Schwassmann 20.11.1899) Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4411 1881     13,5 Rr v     VIR SBdm 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 4604 1883     13,5 Rr v     VIR Im 1        
  N 6389 1878 7 7 13,5 Rr v Herschel W. 29.6.1799   HER Sbc 1   Peters, C. H. F. Verschiedene Beobachtungen von der Sternwarte des Hamilton College AN [2358] 95, 19-22 (1878)
1 N 6481 1859 8 21 13,5 Rr v     OPH *Grp 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)
1 N 6797 1860     13,5 Rr v     SGR *2 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 7134 1860     13,5 Rr v     CAP *Grp 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
1 N 7453 1860 11 7 13,5 Rr v     AQR *3 9   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series I  Copernicus I, 51-54 (1881)
  N 7688 1865 10 13 13,5 Rr v Struve O. 12.10.1865   PEG S0 1   Peters, C. H. F. Positions of Nebulae. Series II  Copernicus II, 54-55 (1882)

Litchfield Observatory and 13.5" f/13.3 Spencer-Refractor