Francis Baily (28 April 1774 – 30 August 1844) was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse...
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Edward Francis Baily (6 August 1925 – 13 October 2010) was an England international footballer. He was a 1950 FIFA World Cup squad member and scored five...
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shine through in some places while not in others. They are named for Francis Baily, who explained the effects in 1836. The diamond ring effects are seen...
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American publisher Francis Baily (1774–1844), English astronomer Francis Baylies (1783–1852), American politician Francis Gibson Baily (1868–1945), British...
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Pennsylvania Francis Baily (1774–1844), English astronomer Gavin Baily (born 1971), English artist, one half of Corby & Baily Jaime Bayly (born 1965),...
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St Francis Bay (Afrikaans: St Francisbaai) is a holiday town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, roughly...
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1945.0134.[dead link] "ccm :: Baily, Margaret Naismith Baily, Margaret Baily". composers-classical-music.com. "Bailey, Francis Gibson (BLY886FG)". A Cambridge...
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Francis Bayer (c. 11 July 1938 – 2 January 2004) was a French composer and musicologist. Born in Villerville (Calvados), it was only after having undertaken...
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Greek word for telescope. Telescopium was later much reduced in size by Francis Baily and Benjamin Gould. The brightest star in the constellation is Alpha...
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Baily is the remnant of a lunar impact crater on the boundary between Mare Frigoris to the north and Lacus Mortis to the south. The crater interior has...
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Francis Bay (27 December 1914 – 24 April 2005) was a Belgian conductor. Born as Frans Bayezt, he conducted many Belgian entries in the Eurovision Song...
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the same year. The hotel has been described by the British traveller Francis Baily in 1797. Among her guests were the explorer William Clark, who stayed...
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re-designated N and H Scorpii respectively, leaving Norma with no Alpha. Francis Baily died before designating an Alpha in Leo Minor, so it also has no Alpha...
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St Francis Bay, was the site of "ten-million-to-one" surfing waves seen in the 1966 surf/travel documentary, The Endless Summer. Cape St. Francis is now...
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Greenwich Observatory Archives held at Cambridge University Library) Baily, Francis (1837) Supplement to the account of the Rev John Flamsteed, at archive...
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light, the differential sextant, and the convertible pendulum. With Francis Baily he began in 1822 the construction of tables for the mean places of the...
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but some holders resigned after one year e.g. due to poor health. Francis Baily and George Airy were elected a record of four times each. Airy was additionally...
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John Canton, John Dollond, Thomas Simpson, John Crosley, John Tatum, Francis Baily, and Benjamin Gompertz. It merged with the Royal Astronomical Society...
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Observatione Ulugh Beighi, by Gregory Sharpe in 1767, and in 1843 by Francis Baily in Vol. XIII of the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1437...
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Francis Baylies (October 16, 1783 – October 28, 1852) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, and brother of congressman William Baylies. His great-grandfather...
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in his catalogue of 1763 as Caelum Sculptoris (“Engraver's Chisel”). Francis Baily shortened this name to Caelum, as suggested by John Herschel. In Lacaille's...
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star in the 1847 edition of Lacaille's catalogue of 9,766 stars by Francis Baily. In the past, Lacaille 8760 has been classified anywhere from spectral...
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centre for the area. Due to the presence of Lake St. Francis on the St. Lawrence River, St. Francis Bay in downtown, and of numerous rivers and canals all...
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and Newbury & Thatcham Chronicle. Richard Adams (1920–2016), author Francis Baily (1774–1844), astronomer Michael Bond (1926–2017), author and creator...
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although it is within the borders of the modern constellation Auriga. Francis Baily reclassified it to Auriga as star 1924 in the British Association's...
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observatory. A significant rewriting of this popular catalog was published by Francis Baily in 1847. It is from this catalog that the star reference numbers were...
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needed] John Flamsteed labeled 41 stars for the constellation. Francis Baily intended to give Bayer designations to some of the stars but because none of them...
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observed stars, including this one, were introduced in its 1847 edition by Francis Baily. Today this star is one of just a few that are still commonly referred...
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Epsilon Eridani (category Bayer objects)
published in 1757 in Astronomiæ Fundamenta, Paris. In its 1831 edition by Francis Baily, Epsilon Eridani has the number 50. Lacaille assigned it magnitude 3...
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St. Francis Bay was first idolised and promoted in the surf movie The Endless Summer in the 1960s (although both Jeffreys Bay and St. Francis Bay were...
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