Antonio Abetti

Antonio Abetti

Born June 19, 1846(1846-06-19)
San Pietro di Gorizia
Died February 20, 1928(1928-02-20) (aged 81)
Nationality Italian
Fields Astronomy
Institutions Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Alma mater University of Padua

Antonio Abetti (June 19, 1846 – February 20, 1928) was an Italian astronomer.

Born in San Pietro di Gorizia (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence. He died in Arcetri.

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Work

Abetti mainly worked in positional astronomy and made many observations of minor planets, comets, and star occultations. He refurbished the observatory at Arcetri by installing a new telescope. In 1874 he was part of an expedition led by Pietro Tacchini to observe a transit of Venus with a spectroscope.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Abetti, Antonio", Christof A. Plicht, p. 6, in The Biographical Dictionary of Astronomers, eds. Thomas Hockey et al., Springer: New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0, doi:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7.

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