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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French:; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a Frenchastronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa. Lacaille observed over 10,000 stars using a refracting telescope.