Edward Piggot and M64
On March 23, 1779, from Frampton House in Glamorganshire
discovered a "nebula" in Coma Berenices, which later became known as
M64 (Pigott 1781). Today M64 is known as the Black Eye Galaxy. This discovery
occurred just 12 days before that by Bode and roughly a year before Messier's
independent rediscovery of this object.
Pigott when he moved to York in 1781 would work with John
Goodricke the deaf astronomer where they would become the ‘Fathers of Variable
Star Astronomy’.
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