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Ladislaus Weinek (Hungarian:Weinek László, 13 February 1848,Buda – 12 November 1913,Prague) was anAustro-Hungarianastronomer.[1][2][3]
He was educated inVienna, and worked for a period at the photography laboratories inSchwerin. In 1874 he joined aGerman expedition aboard thesteam frigateSMS Gazelle to theKerguelen Islands to observe a transit ofVenus across the face of theSun. His results from the expedition were published inNova Acta Leopoldina.
In 1883 he became a professor inPrague and was the ninth director of theKlementinum observatory. There, on 27 November 1885, he took the first known photograph of a meteor. He set up observing stations in Prague and Dresden (to observe theAndromedids shower of that year, which turned out to be very intense), and caught a 7mm-long trail on a plate in Prague.[4]
In collaboration withKarl Friedrich Küstner (inBerlin), he made measurements of the altitude of thecelestial pole. During their investigations they also discoveredpolar motion, the movement of the Earth's polar axis relative to the crust.
Using images taken at theLick Observatory and theMeudon Observatory, he produced the first atlas of theMoon that was based on photographs. The craterWeinek on the Moon and theasteroid7114 Weinek are named after him.
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