Lewis Swift Celebrated Comet Hunter and the People's Astronomer /

• Main Author: Kronk, Gary W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Science.; Planetary Sciences.

This biography covers the life of Lewis Swift (1820-1913), who discovered 13 comets and nearly 1,200 other deep sky objects. All 13 comets found by Swift now bear his name, including three periodic comets with periods of 6 years (11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR), 9 years (64P/Swift-Gehrels), and 133 years (...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Family and Swift's Early Years
• Chapter 2: Swift Steps into Astronomy
• Chapter 3: Duffy's Cider Mill
• Chapter 4: The Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878. Chapter 5: Warner Observatory: A Dream Becomes Reality
• Chapter 6: Celebrity and Its Consequences
• Chapter 7: Edward Emerson Barnard
• Chapter 8: Swift's Heyday of Discovery
• Chapter 9: Growing Dissatisfaction at Warner Observatory
• Chapter 10: A Mountain Resort and Lowe Observatory
• Chapter 11: A Few of Swift's Favorite Things
• Chapter 12: The Final Years
• Chapter 13: Swift's Legacy
• Chapter 14: Annotations for Swift's Catalogs
• Swift's Deep Sky Catalogs
• List of Abbreviations Used in the NGC and IC Descriptions
• Index.