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Who is Halleys Comet named after?

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Who is Halleys Comet named after?

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Edmond Halley (1656 – 1742) The English scientist and astronomer Edmund Halley The English scientist and astronomer Edmund Halley © Halley was an English astronomer and mathematician who was the first to calculate the orbit of the comet later named after him. Edmond (sometimes Edmund) Halley was born on 8 November 1656 on the eastern edge of London. While at Oxford University, Halley was introduced to John Flamsteed, the astronomer royal. Influenced by Flamsteed’s project to compile a catalogue of northern stars, Halley proposed to do the same for the Southern Hemisphere. To this end in 1676 he travelled to the South Atlantic island of St Helena – by the time he returned home in January 1678 he had recorded the celestial longitudes and latitudes of 341 stars and observed a transit of Mercury across the Sun’s disk. Halley’s star catalogue of 1678 was the first to contain telescopically determined locations of southern stars and in the same year he was elected a fellow of the Royal Socie

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