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German astronomer
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Place of birth
Celle
Place of death
Königsberg
Age
37 years
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Moritz Ludwig George Wichmann (1821 – 1859) was a German astronomer. He was an ardent observer of minor planets. A student of Friedrich Bessel, he observed with the famous Königsberg heliometer. In 1853 he published a determination of the parallax of Groombridge 1830.
The asteroid 7103 Wichmann and the Wichmann crater on the Moon were named in his honour.
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