| |
| | William Cranch Bond (1789-1859) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | With this instrument, Bond made extensive studies of sunspots, the Orion Nebula M42 and planet Saturn; in 1848, together with his son, George Phillips Bond, he discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion, at that time the 8th known moon of the ring planet (it was also independently discovered in the same year by William Lassell). |
 | | William and George Bond were also the first in America to use Daguerre's photographic process for astrophotography: In the night of July 16-17, 1850, they worked with J.A. Whipple, a photographer associated with the Massachusetts General Hospital, to obtain the first Daguerreotype of a star, Vega, a 100 seconds exposure. |
 | | W.C. Bond and his son, G.P. Bond have been honored by naming a moon crater Bond (33.2S, 36.0W, 110.6 km diameter, in 1973). |
| www.seds.org /messier/xtra/Bios/wcbond.html (285 words) |
|