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William Herschel begins a survey program in 1782 using larger telescopes and was able to resolve the stars in all 33 of the known globular clusters. When William Herschel began his comprehensive survey of the sky using large telescopes in 1782 there were 34 known globular clusters. Herschel discovered another 36 himself and was the first to resolve virtually all of them into stars
In Herschels 1789 catalog of deep sky objects, his second such, he became the first to use the name globular cluster as their description. First uses the term "globular cluster" in his Catalogue of a Second Thousand New Nebulae and Clusters of Stars
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