DeLisle Stewart

American astronomer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

DeLisle Stewart (March 16, 1870 – February 2, 1941)[1] was an American astronomer.[2]

Discovered in 1900 by astronomer DeLisle Stewart and here imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is IC 4710.
Asteroids discovered: 1[1]
475 OclloAugust 14, 1901

In 1896 he became a staff member of Harvard College Observatory, and from 1898 to 1901 he worked at that observatory's station at Arequipa, Peru, where he took the photographic plates that William Henry Pickering used to discover Saturn's moon Phoebe. He discovered many new nebulas in the sky's southern hemisphere.[1]

Later he worked at Cincinnati Observatory until 1910, and later founded the Cincinnati Astronomical Society.[1]

He discovered the asteroid 475 Ocllo.[1]

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