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Referee's report by William Lassell, on a paper 'Description of the Great Melbourne telescope' by Thomas Romney Robinson and Thomas Grubb. Creator: William Lassell Reference number: RR/6/250. Astronomer 1799 - 1880.
Lassell passed away without suffering soon after five o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, October 5, in the eighty-second year of his age, full of years and greatly honoured and respected. Nature ...
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.
William Lassell, one of the foremost British astronomers of the nineteenth century, rose to fame during the months after the telescopic finding by discovering Triton, Neptune’s chief moon ...
William Lassell (1799-1880) (Figure 1) was born in Bolton in 1799. His family business was associated with clock and watch making. Lassell became an amateur astronomer and a telescope maker at an early age. With only 21 years he built two reflecting telescopes of 7-inch aperture, a Newtonian and a Gregorian.
O pequeno cráter Lassell de Marte, na zona de Coprates, lembra o seu traballo sobre este planeta. Así mesmo, unha crista do satélite Hiperión denominada Bond-Lassell Dorsum tamén conmemora o seu nome, honra compartida co astrónomo estadounidense George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), codescubridor do satélite.
33. Herschel W. Lassell to J., 14 August 1847, Royal Society Herschel papers (H.S. 11.134).A few days earlier Lassell had written to the Astronomische Nachrichten and commented that he had noticed on two or three occasions the same appearance of the ring as in 1846, “But nothing more strongly confirmatory, and I wait to see the planet more nearly on the meridian, and for a state of ...
