# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/n-r-pogson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:07:36.228Z

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name: "N. R. Pogson"
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description: "Norman Robert Pogson, CIE was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio."
tagline: "British astronomer (1829–1891)"
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birthDate: "1829-03-23"
deathDate: "1891-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump