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Francis Preserved Leavenworth
American astronomer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Preserved Leavenworth (September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon, Indiana – November 12, 1928;[1] a.k.a. Frank Leavenworth) was an American astronomer. He discovered many New General Catalogue objects together with Frank Muller and Ormond Stone. They used a telescope with a 66-cm aperture at the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.[2]
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He became a member of the Camden Astronomical Society shortly after its founding in 1888.[3]
In 1909 he joined Frederick C. Leonard's Society for Practical Astronomy.[4]