Overview of Wilhelm Tempel’s Discoveries


Location of Discovery

C o m e t s

f u r t h e r
d i s c o v e r i e s

Discovery of new Objects

First Location of Recurring Periodic Objects

recognized as a first discovery

short after but independent from the first discoverer

Venice

1859

Merope Nebula  *)

Marseille

1860 IV
1863 IV
1864 II
1866 I   (55P/Tempel-Tuttle)
1867 II  ( 9P/Tempel 1)
1869 II
1869 III (11P/Tempel-
             Swift-LINEAR)
1870 I 


1862 II
   (several hours
                after Schmidt)

1863 III   (four days
                after  Respighi)

1863 IV  (four days
                after  Baecker)
1871 I      (seven days
                after  Stephan)

1868 I  ( 5D/Brorsen)

Minor Planets :
 
(64) Angelina
  (65) Cybele
  (74) Galathea
  (81) Terpsichore
  (97) Clotho

 
Three weeks after Watson and independent from him he found (79) Eurinome.

Milan

1871 II
1871 IV
1873 II  (10P/Tempel 2)

1874 II    (seven days
               after Winnecke)

1875 I  ( 7P/Pons-
            Winnecke)

Arcetri

1877 V

1877 IV ( 6P/d’Arest)
1878 III (10P/Tempel 2)
1879 I   ( 5D/Brorsen)
1879 III ( 9P/Tempel 1)
1881 I   ( 4P/Faye)
1885 I   ( 2P/Encke)

Nebulas:
Approximately 60 nebulas and galaxies,
1878 rediscovery of the big red mark (Grosser Roter Fleck) on Jupiter.

                              ©Lutz Clausnitzer                        *) = NGC 1435 , brightest portion of the Reflection Nebula (within the Pleiades) around and south from Merope

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