N. R. Pogson
British astronomer (1829-1891) · Scientists · Died at 62
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.
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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.
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Lived 1829 to 1891 · aged 62
