Antonio Abetti

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Antonio Abetti (June 19, 1846 - February 20, 1928) was an Italian astronomer.

Born in San Pietro di Gorizia, he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence. In 1874 he was part of an expedition led by Pietro Tacchini to observe a transit of Venus with a spectroscope. He was a member fo the Accademia dei Lincei and the Royal Astronomical Society.

The Abetti crater on the Moon is named after both Antonio and his son Giorgio Abetti.

Abetti, Giorgio. "Abetti, Antonio." in Dictionary of Scientific Biography. (1970). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Vol. 1: p.19.

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