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d’Agelet, Joseph

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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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  • Weaver, Harold F. (1951). “The Identification of D’Agelet’s Nova Sagittae of 1783.” Astrophysical Journal113: 320–323.

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Office: Latham 112, Cedar Falls, IA, 50614, USA

    Thomas Hockey

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

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  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

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  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Hockey, T. (2014). d’Agelet, Joseph. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_324

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