William Herschel - Named After Herschel

Named After Herschel

• The symbol for planet Uranus features the capital initial letter of Herschel's surname.
• Mu Cephei is also known as Herschel's Garnet Star
• Herschel, a crater on the Moon
• Herschel, a large impact basin on Mars
• The enormous crater Herschel on Saturn's moon Mimas
• 2000 Herschel, an asteroid
• The William Herschel Telescope on La Palma
• The Herschel Space Observatory, successfully launched by the European Space Agency on 14 May 2009. It is the largest space telescope of its kind
• Herschel Grammar School, Slough
• Rue Herschel, a street in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris.
• The Herschel Building at City of Bath College, Bath
• The Herschel building at Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy
• Herschelschule, Hanover, Germany, a grammar school
• Herschel, Saskatchewan, Canada is a small, rural village that is home to the Ancient Echoes Interpretative Centre
• The Herschel Observatory, from the school Universitas in Santos, Brazil.
• The lunar crater C. Herschel, the asteroid 281 Lucretia, and the comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet are named after his sister Caroline Herschel.
• A public house in Slough is named after him and is quite close to the site of Observatory House. Herschel Arms, 22 Park Street, Slough, Berkshire SL1 1PS
• Herschel Astronomical Society who operate the Herschel Memorial Observatory based in Eton, Berkshire.
• Herschel Park, Slough.
• New Slough Bus Station shape was inspired by the infrared experiment of Sir William Herschel. The Bus Station was built in 2011.