Norman Robert Pogson

Asteroids discovered: 8>
42 Isis May 23 1856
43 Ariadne April 15 1857
46 Hestia August 16 1857
67 Asia April 17 1861
80 Sappho May 2 1864
87 Sylvia May 16 1866
107 Camilla November 17 1868
245 Vera February 6 1885
Norman Robert Pogson (March 23, 1829June 23, 1891) was a British astronomer who worked in Oxford and in Madras, India. In 1856 he formalized the system of stellar magnitudes, by defining magnitudes logarithmically and fixing a difference of five magnitudes as corresponding to a hundred-fold difference in brightness. A lunar crater is named after him, and so is the asteroid 1830 Pogson.

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Pogson, Norman Robert Pogson, Norman Robert Pogson, Norman Robert Pogson, Norman Robert

 

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