The Role of the Observer in Telescope Observation

The first person on record to have mentioned that this new comet might actually be a planet was the British astronomer Royal Neville. Herschel apparently did not refer to Uranus as a planet until the summer of 1782, when he called it, quote, my planet. And again, he wanted to originally call it Georgium Cetus, the George star again, George LOL. This episode is brought to you by T-Mobile.