biography
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| (1799–1880)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, NW England, UK. As an amateur, he built an observatory at Starfield near Liverpool, where he constructed and mounted equatorial reflecting telescopes. He discovered several planetary satellites, including Triton (1846) and Hyperion (1848). He was the first to ascertain clearly the composition of the Uranian system, and discovered Ariel and Umbriel, satellites of Uranus (1851). |
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