William Cranch Bond
William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, the first director of Harvard College Observatory.He and his son George Phillips Bond discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion; it was independently co-discovered at the same time by William Lassell in Britain, and both are given credit.
Father and son pioneered astrophotography, taking the first daguerreotype image of a star (Vega) in 1850.
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