About Joseph Gledhill
Lived 1837 – 1906 (aged 68). Joseph Gledhill was an astronomer.
Joseph Gledhill (17 November 1837 – 20 March 1906) was a British astronomer. He worked as an assistant at the Bermerside Observatory in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.
In 1879 he co-authored the book A Handbook of Double Stars with Edward Crossley and Rev. James Wilson (who was later Canon of Worcester). Gledhill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society on 15 November 1865 and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 8 May 1874.
A crater on Mars is named in his honour.
Obituary MNRAS 67 (1907) 232
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Joseph Gledhill was born on 17 November 1837.
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Joseph Gledhill died on 20 March 1906.
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