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Mar 23, 1829 Nottingham, England, United Kingdom Died on 23 Jun 1891 (aged 62)
British astronomer
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About N. R. Pogson
- Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) 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.
