The minor planet 1346 Gotha was named after the city of Gotha in recognition of the observatory.
He made two large ones with a magnifying power of two hundred times; one of these he gave to Hans Moritz von Brühl, and it passed to the Gotha Observatory, the other descended to his son William Mudge.
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