Everywhere in the sky where William Herschel pointed his mighty telescopes there were wonders no one before him had ever seen and he truly had a boundless untrodden field before him. He left the world with two great catalogs of his astronomical discoveries resulting from these heady celestial explorations.
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(2007). Herschel's Catalogs and Classes. In: The Herschel Objects and How to Observe Them. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68125-2_3
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