Francis Preserved Leavenworth

Francis Preserved Leavenworth (born September 3, 1858 in Mount Vernon, Indiana; died November 12, 1928; 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.

External links

• Article by William O. Beal about Leavenworth in "Popular Astronomy", Vol. 37, S. 117 ADS
• Obituary in "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society", Vol. 89, S. 312 ADS
• Photo and list of discovered objects
• Publications by F. P. Leavenworth in the Astrophysics Data System