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George Phillips Bond 1825 - 1865
- Nationality:
- American
Initially interested in nature and birds it was not until his father death that he became interested in astronomy. Bond took the first photograph of a star in 1850 and of a double star in 1857. He went on to further study and discover comets, moons, planets and their orbits.