- Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
- Whipple, Fred Lawrence
- Fraunhofer , Joseph von Fraunhofer în
- Smith, Francis Graham
- Flamsteed John
- Eudoxus de Cnidus
- Draper
- Davidson, George
- Levy, David H. Levy H.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus
- Tombaugh, Clyde Tombaugh William
- Messier, Charles
- Payne
- Shoemaker, Carolyn
- Burnham , Sherburne Wesley
- Brahe, Tycho Brahe
- Bond (familie)
- Barnard , Edward Emerson
- Airy , Sir George Biddell
- Adams, John Couch
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