John Ellard Gore
Amateur astronomer
Died when: 65 years 47 days (781 months)Star Sign: Gemini
John Ellard Gore (1845–1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author, and a founding member of the British Astronomical Association.
He was mainly interested in variable stars of which he discovered several, most notably W Cygni in 1884, U Orionis in 1885, and independently discovered Nova Persei.In 2009, the IAU named a lunar impact crater after Gore.
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