facts

• he was the first person to discover the existance of infared radiation.
• he invented a microscope that helped to see that coral had the characteristic of thin cell walls like animals
• The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is where he lived and made most of my telescopes.
• he constructed more than four hundred telescopes. The largest that he made was 49 1/2 inches in diameter for the primary mirror,. It was 40 feet in focal legnth. The telescope was a reflecting telescope.
• he became interested in astronomy later in life

• he discovered the moons Enceladus and Mimas. He also discovered Uranus's moons Oberon and Titania and studied and catalogued double Stars and Nebulae.