Born Thonne‐la‐Long, (Meuse), France, 1751
Died 1788
In 1783, French astronomer Joseph d'Agelet was cataloging stars when one (WY Sagittae) disappeared from view. For more than a century d'Agelet's Star perplexed observers. Then, in the 1950s, Lick Observatory astronomers in California located a faint star at the same coordinates. D'Agelet had happened to catch a nova.
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Baum, Richard (1973). The Planets: Some Myths and Realities. Devon, England: David and Charles Ltd.
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(2007). d'Agelet, Joseph. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_324
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