Elisabeth Hevelius

✶January 17, 1647

†December 22, 1693

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Elisabeth Catherina Koopmann-Hevelius is considered one of the first female astronomers. She contributed to improve and published Prodromus Astronomiae, a comprehensive star catalog by her husband Johannes Hevelius in Danzig. Her contribution to astronomy was recognized posthumously, including the naming of a crater on planet Venus and an asteroid after her.

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