Edmund Weiß was an Austria

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n astronomer

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He was born in Frývaldov, Austrian Silesia

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, now Jeseník

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, Czech Silesia

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. In 1869 he became a professor at the University of Vienna

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. He was named the director of the Vienna

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 observatory in 1878. He also served as president of the Austrian österreichischen Gradmessungskommission, the degree measurement commission.

He published a number of comet

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 observations and emphemeris' in the Astronomische Nachrichten between 1859 and 1909. In 1892 he published "Atlas der Sternwelt", a German language

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 astronomy atlas.

The crater Weiss

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 on the Moon

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is named after him.