# John Ellard Gore

> John Ellard Gore 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.

*Irish astronomer and author*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1845-06-01
- **Died:** 1910-07-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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