Herschel

Herschel or Herschell may refer to:

People

• Herschel (name), various people

Places

• Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
• Herschel, Saskatchewan
• Herschel, Yukon
• Herschel Bay, Canada
• Herschel Heights, Alexander Island, Antarctica
• Herschel Island, Canada
• Herschel Island (Chile), an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago
• Mount Herschel, Antarctica
• Cape Sterneck, Antarctica

Astronomy

• Herschel (crater), various craters in the solar system
• 2000 Herschel, an asteroid
• 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet
• Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation), various astronomical catalogues of nebulae
• Herschel Medal, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy, in Bath, United Kingdom
• Herschel Space Observatory, operated by the European Space Agency
• Herschel wedge, an optical prism used in solar observation
• Herschel's Garnet Star, a red supergiant star
• William Herschel Telescope, in the Canary Islands
• Telescopium Herschelii, a constellation
• Uranus, for a time known as Herschel

Other uses

• Allan Herschell Company, which specialized in amusement park rides
• Herschel–Bulkley fluid, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid
• Herschel baronets, of the United Kingdom
• Herschel Girls' School, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town
• Herschel Grammar School, in Slough, Berkshire, England
• Herschel graph, a bipartite undirected graph
• Herschel Greer Stadium, in Nashville, Tennessee
• Herschel the sea lion, predatory seals in Seattle
• Herschel Walker trade, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League
• Herschel Supply Co., Canadian backpack manufacturer
• USNS Hershel "Woody" Williams (T-ESB-4), sister ship of USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3), a mobile landing platform
• Herschel, a specific heptomino and methuselah (cellular automaton) in Conway’s Game of Life
• Herschel, a a 1926 boat of the Mackenzie River watershed

See also

• Hersch
• Hirsch (disambiguation)
• Hirsh