Astronomer
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/cpeters.html
"At Hamilton College, Peters used the 13 1/2-inch refractor to plot sunspots by day and to search for new asteroids by night. His sunspot observations remained unpublished until long after his death (they eventually appeared as Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1869 to 1870 (1907). However, his asteroid discoveries won him immediate renown. His first discovery seems to have been inadvertent; he tracked down 72 Feronia while chasing another asteroid, 66 Maja, which had been found by H. P. Tuttle at Harvard. Peters added two more asteroids, 75 Eurydice and 77 Frigga, in 1862 and one each in 1865, 1866, and 1867. Impressed by this record, a Mr. Litchfield, a railroad magnate from nearby Delphi Falls guaranteed all the funds needed to cover the astronomer's modest yearly salary. The observatory was renamed the "Litchfield Observatory," and Peters enjoyed the title "Litchfield professor of astronomy" and a modicum of financial security."
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/cpeters.html
"At Hamilton College, Peters used the 13 1/2-inch refractor to plot sunspots by day and to search for new asteroids by night. His sunspot observations remained unpublished until long after his death (they eventually appeared as Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1869 to 1870 (1907). However, his asteroid discoveries won him immediate renown. His first discovery seems to have been inadvertent; he tracked down 72 Feronia while chasing another asteroid, 66 Maja, which had been found by H. P. Tuttle at Harvard. Peters added two more asteroids, 75 Eurydice and 77 Frigga, in 1862 and one each in 1865, 1866, and 1867. Impressed by this record, a Mr. Litchfield, a railroad magnate from nearby Delphi Falls guaranteed all the funds needed to cover the astronomer's modest yearly salary. The observatory was renamed the "Litchfield Observatory," and Peters enjoyed the title "Litchfield professor of astronomy" and a modicum of financial security."
Astronomer
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/cpeters.html
"At Hamilton College, Peters used the 13 1/2-inch refractor to plot sunspots by day and to search for new asteroids by night. His sunspot observations remained unpublished until long after his death (they eventually appeared as Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1869 to 1870 (1907). However, his asteroid discoveries won him immediate renown. His first discovery seems to have been inadvertent; he tracked down 72 Feronia while chasing another asteroid, 66 Maja, which had been found by H. P. Tuttle at Harvard. Peters added two more asteroids, 75 Eurydice and 77 Frigga, in 1862 and one each in 1865, 1866, and 1867. Impressed by this record, a Mr. Litchfield, a railroad magnate from nearby Delphi Falls guaranteed all the funds needed to cover the astronomer's modest yearly salary. The observatory was renamed the "Litchfield Observatory," and Peters enjoyed the title "Litchfield professor of astronomy" and a modicum of financial security."
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/cpeters.html
"At Hamilton College, Peters used the 13 1/2-inch refractor to plot sunspots by day and to search for new asteroids by night. His sunspot observations remained unpublished until long after his death (they eventually appeared as Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1869 to 1870 (1907). However, his asteroid discoveries won him immediate renown. His first discovery seems to have been inadvertent; he tracked down 72 Feronia while chasing another asteroid, 66 Maja, which had been found by H. P. Tuttle at Harvard. Peters added two more asteroids, 75 Eurydice and 77 Frigga, in 1862 and one each in 1865, 1866, and 1867. Impressed by this record, a Mr. Litchfield, a railroad magnate from nearby Delphi Falls guaranteed all the funds needed to cover the astronomer's modest yearly salary. The observatory was renamed the "Litchfield Observatory," and Peters enjoyed the title "Litchfield professor of astronomy" and a modicum of financial security."
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Born in Coldenbuttel, Sleswig, Died on College Hill
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