Herbert Couper Wilson

 

Obituary: PASP 52, 156 (1940)

Wilson discovered 3 IC-objects with the 16.2" refractor of Goodsell Observatory (see picture). The galaxies IC 841 and IC 851, both in Coma, were found during a search for Winnecke's comet.

D N NI Y M D Ap I T Con Type S Author Title Source
1 I 841 1892 2 24 16,2 Rr v COM S? 1 Wilson, H. C. Two New Nebulae Astro. and Astro-Phys. 11, 247 (1892)
1 I 851 1892 2 25 16,2 Rr v COM Sb 1 Wilson, H. C. Two New Nebulae Astro. and Astro-Phys. 11, 247 (1892)
1 I 5090 1895 10 8 16,2 Rr v AQR Sa 1 Wilson, H. C. A New Nebula AJ 15, 184 (1895)

*) This magazine has nothing to do with the modern, european Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A). The old one was published by William Wallace Payne (Goodsell Obs.) from 1892-95 and was continued as the Astrophysical Journal by George Ellery Hale (Chicago). It is interesting that Payne also created two other, more popular magazines: The Sidereal Messenger (1882-92) and Popular Astronomy (starting 1893). Both had equal-named forerunners published by Ormsby Mitchel (Cincinatti Obs.), but they were short living (1864-66, 1860).

 

Goodsell Observatory, Northfield, with 16.2" Refractor