Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was an American astronomer. September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Having graduated at Harvard College in 1844, he studied mathematics and astronomy under C. F. Gauss at Göttingen, Germany, during which time he published approximately 20 papers on the observation and motion of comets and asteroids. He returned to America in 1848. From 1852 to 1867 he was in charge of the longitude department of the United States Coast Survey; he developed and organized the service, was one of the first to determine longitudes by telegraphic means, and employed the Atlantic cable in 1866 to establish longitude-relations between Europe and America. City nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location Location in Massachusetts Government Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Physical characteristics Area      Land      Water 89. ... Today Harvard College is the undergraduate portion of Harvard University. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Astrometry: the study of the position of objects in the sky and their changes of position. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß) (April 30, 1777 _ February 23, 1855) was a legendary German mathematician, astronomer and physicist with a very wide range of contributions; he is considered to be one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. ... Landmark Gänseliesel fountain at the main market Göttingen (   listen?) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... Photo of the comet Hale-Bopp above a tree. ... An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast. ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...

Returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts and started the Astronomical Journal in 1849, which he published until 1861. He resumed publication in 1885. From 1855 to 1859 he acted as director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, New York, and published in 1859 a discussion of the places and proper motions of circumpolar stars to be used as standards by the United States Coast Survey. In 1861 he undertook the enormous task of preparing for publication the records of astronomical observations made at the U.S. Naval Observatory since 1850. Appointed in 1862 actuary to the United States Sanitary Commission, he issued in 1869 an important volume of Military and Anthropological Statistics. He fitted up in 1864 a private observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts and undertook in 1868, on behalf of the Argentine republic, to organize a national observatory at Córdoba. In 1868 he became the first director of the Argentine National Observatory (today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba). While there, he extensively mapped the southern hemisphere skies using newly developed photometric methods. The need of astronomers for good weather prediction spurred Gould to collaborate with Argentine colleagues to develop the Argentine National Weather Service, the first in South America. Starting in 1870, with four assistants he mapped the stars of the southern skies there, using the recently developed photometric method, and completed in 1874 his greatest work, the Uranometria Argentina (published 1879) for which he received in 1883 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. City Hall - Cambridge MA Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ... The Astronomical Journal is a monthly scientific journal published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Astronomical Society. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The name Albany is an ancient and literary name for Scotland, north of the Firth of Forth (east) and Firth of Clyde (west). ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... 1861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Aerial view of USNO. The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) is one of the oldest scientific agencies in the United States. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Avenida Colón, Córdoba Córdoba is a city located in the foothills of the Sierra Chica mountains on the Suquía river, the center of Argentinas most productive agricultural area. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1874 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research (mainly carried on at the time by gentleman astronomers rather than professionals). ...

This was followed by a zone-catalogue of 73,160 stars (1884), and a general catalogue (1885) compiled from meridian observations of 32,448 stars. Gould's measurements of L. M. Rutherfurd's photographs of the Pleiades in 1866 entitle him to rank as a pioneer in the use of the camera as an instrument of precision; and he secured at Cordoba 1400 negatives of southern star clusters, the reduction of which occupied the closing years of his life. He remained in Argentina until 1885, when he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1883 and the James Craig Watson Medal in 1887. Astronomers continue to investigate the astrophysics of a large scale feature of the Milky Way to which he called their attention in 1877, and honor him with its name, Gould's Belt. A crater on the Moon is named after him. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1897. 1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Pleiades, dominated by hot blue stars surrounded by reflection nebulosity The Pleiades (pleye-a-deez or plee-a-deez, also known as M45, or the Seven Sisters) is an open cluster in the constellation of Taurus. ... 1866 is a common year starting on Monday. ... Globular Cluster M92 in the Hercules constellation. ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The James Craig Watson Medal was established by the bequest of James Craig Watson, and is awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astronomy. ... 1887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). ... This article is about impact craters, also known as meteor craters. ... Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0. ... City Hall - Cambridge MA Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. ...