Joseph Gledhill
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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[1] and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 8 May 1874.[2]
A crater on Mars is named in his honour.
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- ^ "Fellows list, Royal Meteorological Society 1900" (PDF).
- ^ "1907MNRAS..67R.232. Page 232". adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
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