Antonio Abetti (1846–1926)

Antonio Abetti (1846–1926), from the Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri, was the vice-president of the first IAU Executive Committee. Abetti contributed to positional astronomy and performed detailed observations of minor planets, comets and star occultations. In 1874 he was part of an expedition to India to observe a transit of Venus. Later he became the Director of the Arcetri Observatory, located in the outskirts of Florence, Italy.

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