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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander

Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (March 22 1799 – February 17 1875) was a Prussian astronomer, born in Memel in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Klaipeda in Lithuania), and best known for his work in recording the positions of stars.

Together with Adalbert Krüger and Eduard Schönfeld, he was responsible for the star catalogue known as the Bonner Durchmusterung, published between 1852 and 1859, which gave the positions and brightness of more than 324,000 stars, although it did not cover much of the southern half of the sky.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1863.

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