Antonio Abetti Explained

Antonio Abetti
Birth Date:19 June 1846
Birth Place:San Pietro di Gorizia, Austrian Empire
Death Place:Arcetri, Kingdom of Italy
Nationality:Italian
Field:Astronomy
Work Institutions:Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri
Alma Mater:University of Padua

Antonio Abetti (19 June 1846 – 20 February 1928) was an Italian astronomer.

Born in San Pietro di Gorizia (Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. He was married to Giovanna Colbachini in 1879 and they had two sons.[1] He died in Arcetri.

Work

Abetti mainly worked in positional astronomy and made many observations of minor planets, comets, and star occultations. In 1874 he was part of an expedition led by Pietro Tacchini to observe a transit of Venus with a spectroscope. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence. He refurbished the observatory at Arcetri by installing a new telescope.

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Notes and References

  1. Antonio Abetti. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. February 1929. 89. 4. 325–327. 10.1093/mnras/89.4.325a. 1929MNRAS..89R.325.. free.
  2. "Abetti, Antonio", Christof A. Plicht, p. 6, in The Biographical Dictionary of Astronomers, eds. Thomas Hockey et al., Springer: New York, 2007,, .