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Noun: John Herschel
  1. English astronomer (son of William Herschel) who extended the catalogue of stars to the southern hemisphere and did pioneering work in photography (1792-1871)
    - Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Sir John Frederick William Herschel

Type of: astronomer, stargazer, uranologist

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