John Ellard Gore

John Ellard Gore
John Ellard Gore
Born(1845-06-01)1 June 1845
Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
Died18 July 1910(1910-07-18) (aged 65)
Grafton Street, Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Alma materTrinity College, Dublin
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy

John Ellard Gore (1845–1910) was an Irish amateur astronomer and prolific author, and a founding member of the British Astronomical Association. He was mainly interested in variable stars of which he discovered several, most notably W Cygni in 1884, U Orionis in 1885, and independently discovered Nova Persei.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] In 2009, the IAU named a lunar impact crater after Gore.[11]

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