Herschel or Herschell may refer to:

People

Herschel (name) Herschel, Herschell, Herschelle or Hershel is a given name and a surname of Germans, German and Jewish origins. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Herschel W. Arant (1887–1941), American legal academic * Herschel Austin (1911– ...

, various people

Places

Herschel, Eastern Cape Herschel is a settlement in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The village is situated north of Lady Grey, due east of Aliwal North. Founded in 1879, it was named after the astronomer Sir John Hersch ...

, South Africa *

Herschel, Saskatchewan Herschel is a special service area in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the seat of the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 and held village status prior to December 31, 2006. The population was 30 people in 2016. The communi ...

Herschel, Yukon This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

Herschel Bay Herschel Bay is an Arctic waterway in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Nares Strait, west of Smith Sound. Ellesmere Island is to the east, while Pim Island Pim Island (previously Bedford Pim Island) is located off the ea ...

, Canada *

Herschel Heights The Herschel Heights () are a complex of nunataks of which Mimas Peak on the east is the highest, located southwest of the Enceladus Nunataks and near the head of Saturn Glacier in southeastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The eastern part of ...

, Alexander Island, Antarctica *

Herschel Island Herschel Island (french: Île d'Herschel; Inuit languages: ''Qikiqtaruk'') is an island in the Beaufort Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean), which lies off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part. It is Yukon's only o ...

, Canada * Herschel Island (Chile), an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago *

Mount Herschel Mount Herschel is a conspicuous peak standing northeast of Mount Peacock and overlooking the terminus of Ironside Glacier from the south, in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. The peak was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark ...

, Antarctica *

Cape Sterneck Cape Sterneck () is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point forming the west extremity of Chavdar Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay and the west side of the ...

, Antarctica

Astronomy

* Herschel (crater), various craters in the solar system *

2000 Herschel 2000 Herschel, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered 29 July 1960, by German astronomer Joachim Schubart at So ...

, an asteroid * 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet *

Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation) Herschel Catalogue may refer to: * Herschel Space Observatory catalogue of observations * Catalogues published by William Herschel and Caroline Herschel ** '' Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars'' catalogued by William and Caroline Herschel ...

, various astronomical catalogues of nebulae *

Herschel Medal The Herschel Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics". It is awarded for a single piece of work so that younger scientists can be candidates for the award. It ...

, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society *

Herschel Museum of Astronomy The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981. It is located in a town house that was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline. Location The museum is si ...

, in Bath, United Kingdom *

Herschel Space Observatory The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telesc ...

, operated by the European Space Agency *

Herschel wedge A Herschel wedge or Herschel prism is an optical prism used in solar observation to refract most of the light out of the optical path, allowing safe visual observation. It was first proposed and used by astronomer John Herschel in the 1830s. Over ...

, an optical prism used in solar observation *

Herschel's Garnet Star Mu Cephei ( Latinized from μ Cephei, abbreviated Mu Cep or μ Cep), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at ...

, a red supergiant star *

William Herschel Telescope The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The telescope, which is named after William Herschel, ...

, in the Canary Islands * Telescopium Herschelii, a constellation *

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus (mythology), Uranus (Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars (mythology), Mars), grandfather ...

, for a time known as Herschel

Other uses

Allan Herschell Company The Allan Herschell Company specialized in the creation of amusement rides, particularly carousels and roller coasters. The company manufactured portable machines that could be used by traveling carnival operators. It was started in 1915 in the ...

, which specialized in amusement park rides *

Herschel–Bulkley fluid The Herschel–Bulkley fluid is a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid, in which the strain experienced by the fluid is related to the stress in a complicated, non-linear way. Three parameters characterize this relationship: the consistency ...

, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid *

Herschel baronets The Herschel Baronetcy, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1838 for John Herschel, son of the famous astronomer Sir William Herschel, and a well-known astronomer ...

, of the United Kingdom *

Herschel Girls' School ("To the Glory of God") , established = , type = All-girls private school , religion = Anglican , district = District 9 , number = 021 650 7500 , locale ...

, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town *

Herschel Grammar School Herschel Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school with academy status, located in Slough, Berkshire, England. The headteacher is Mrs Joanne Rockall. The school has around 900 pupils, 250 of whom are in the sixth form. History The sc ...

, in Slough, Berkshire, England *

Herschel graph In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the Herschel graph is a bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges. It is a polyhedral graph (the graph of a convex polyhedron), and is the smallest polyhedral graph that does not have a Ha ...

, a bipartite undirected graph *

Herschel Greer Stadium Herschel Greer Stadium was a Minor League Baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification, approximately south of the city's downtown district. The facility closed at the end of the 20 ...

, in Nashville, Tennessee *

Herschel Walker trade The Herschel Walker trade was the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League (NFL). This deal on October 12, 1989, centered on sending running back Herschel Walker from the Dallas Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikings. Including ...

, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League *

Herschel Supply Co. Herschel Supply Co. is a Canadian company selling hipster retro backpacks and accessories. The company was founded by Lyndon and Jamie Cormack in 2009 and is based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Herschel manufactures its products ...

, Canadian backpack manufacturer * USNS ''Hershel "Woody" Williams'' (T-ESB-4), sister ship of USNS ''Lewis B. Puller'' (T-ESB-3), a mobile landing platform * Herschel, a specific

heptomino A heptomino (or 7-omino) is a polyomino of order 7, that is, a polygon in the plane made of 7 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. The name of this type of figure is formed with the prefix hept(a)-. When rotations and reflections are not ...

and

methuselah (cellular automaton) In cellular automata, a methuselah is a small "seed" pattern of initial live cells that take a large number of generations in order to stabilize. More specifically, Martin Gardner defines them as patterns of fewer than ten live cells which take l ...

in Conway’s Game of Life * ''Herschel'', a a 1926 boat of the Mackenzie River watershed

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