Numerous notable astronomers worked or trained at the site, including Franz Brünnow, Cleveland Abbe, James Craig Watson, Asaph Hall, Otto Julius Klotz, Robert Simpson Woodward, and John Martin Schaeberle.
According to Edward S. Holden, John Martin Schaeberle discovered a comet like object on the plates of the eclipse from Chili.
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