. On this day in 1863 – December 11th – American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born.
Cannon classified nearly a quarter of a million star spectra for the Henry Draper Catalogue and oversaw its publication after the death of Edward Pickering, the Harvard College Observatory director.
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