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Semantic Scholar extracted view of "William Lassell (1799–1880): Practitioner, patron and “grand amateur” of victorian astronomy" by A. Chapman
Discovery Umbriel was discovered on Oct. 24, 1851 by English astronomer William Lassell. Overview Umbriel is the darkest of Uranus’ largest moons. It reflects only 16 percent of the light that strikes its surface, a feature similar to the highland areas of Earth’s Moon. Other Uranian moons are much brighter. The process by which Umbriel’s […]
17 de jun. de 2014 · June 18 is William Lassell’s birthday. At the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign, the port city of Liverpool had just built its first steam railway to the city of Manchester. This would make Liverpool the focus of import/export for much of England’s manufacturing trade. Liverpool would quickly become one of Europe’s fastest growing cities.
Discovery Ariel was discovered Oct. 24, 1851 by William Lassell, one of 19th century England’s grand amateur astronomers, who used the fortune he made in the brewery business to finance his telescopes. Overview All of Uranus’ larger moons, including Ariel, are thought to consist mostly of roughly equal amounts of water ice and silicate rock. […]
Discovery William Lassell discovered Hyperion in 1848. That same year William Cranch Bond, with his son George Phillips Bond, independently discovered the moon. All three men are jointly credited with the discovery. Overview Hyperion is the largest of Saturn’s irregular, nonspherical moons. Hyperion’s mean radius is 83.9 miles (135 kilometers), but since Hyperion is rather […]
10 de may. de 2021 · Gerard Gilligan is a member of Liverpool Astronomical Society, and, since 2014, has been Chairman of the Society for the History of Astronomy (SHA, https://s...
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Lassell also discovered Hyperion and the crêpe ring of Saturn, independently of William Bond. In 1851 he discovered Ariel and Umbriel. In the winter of 1852–1853, he moved his 24-inch telescope to Malta, where, under much clearer skies than were available in industrial England he was able to observe and catalogue hundreds of new nebulae.
