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Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at.
With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, [1] at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ), working from Le Verrier's calculations.
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Mar 5, 2024 · Johann Gottfried Galle (born June 9, 1812, near Gräfenhainichen, Prussian Saxony—died July 10, 1910, Potsdam, Ger.) was a German astronomer who on Sept. 23, 1846, was the first to observe the planet Neptune. Galle joined the staff of the Berlin Observatory, where he served as assistant director under J.F. Encke from 1835 until 1851.
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Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 in Radis, Saxony-Anhalt –10 July 1910 in Potsdam, Brandenburg) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the help of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at.
Sep 22, 2021 · Right: 1890 portrait of astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, the first to identify Neptune as the eighth planet. With the 1781 discovery of Uranus, the number of known planets in the solar system grew to seven.
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May 29, 2018 · Galle, Johann Gottfried (b. Pabsthaus, near Gräfenhainichen, Germany, 9 June 1812; d. Potsdam, Germany, 10 July 1910) astronomy. Galle was the son of J. Gottfried Galle and Henriette Pannier. He was born in an isolated house on the Dübener Heide, a wooded heath between the Elbe and the Mulde, where his father was manager of a tar distillery.
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