Pigott and Goodricke

Well, with the best intentions I started to write a small essay on the above gentlemen, but soon discovered that it was impossible to gather a piece about them without typing reams of material. I first heard about them at a BAA "Winchester Weekend" lecture and have been interested since. If you consider the period of the astronomy lifespan that they studied in (1764 - 1825) and the quality of equipment they would have used, and then on top of that the fact that they could communicate in writing only, it makes these two astronomers real history makers of the Variable Star world.
Please follow the links and read other articles on the web that you can find on them, it is an interesting journey of adversity and triumph.
Probably over done it with the emotions there but.......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Pigott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodricke