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N. R. Pogson
Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an Englishastronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stellar magnitudes with the ratio of two successive magnitudes being the fifth root of one hundred (~2.512) and referred to as Pogson's ratio.
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