Like William Herschel before him, he came to the correct conclusion that the visible patches on Mars were surface features rather than clouds or other transient features. Observers like Johann Hieronymus Schröter had come to the opposite conclusion.
He also made observations of the Moon, and was one of a number of astronomers to independently discover the return of Comet Halley in 1835.
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georg, karl, friedrich, kunowsky, this, article, does, cite, sources, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, news, newspapers, books, scholar, jstor, december, 2009, . This article does not cite any sources Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Georg Karl Friedrich Kunowsky news newspapers books scholar JSTOR December 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Georg Karl Friedrich Kunowsky 3 March 1786 23 December 1846 was a German lawyer who was also a talented amateur astronomer He made observations of Mars with an 11 cm achromatic refractor telescope made by Joseph von Fraunhofer which was one of the first times that achromatic refractors were used for planetary observation these were a notable improvement over the reflectors available to earlier observers Like William Herschel before him he came to the correct conclusion that the visible patches on Mars were surface features rather than clouds or other transient features Observers like Johann Hieronymus Schroter had come to the opposite conclusion He also made observations of the Moon and was one of a number of astronomers to independently discover the return of Comet Halley in 1835 Kunowsky crater on the Moon and another crater on Mars were named in his honour Wikimedia Commons has media related to George K Kunowsky Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Georg Karl Friedrich Kunowsky amp oldid 1068171264, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
