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William Cranch Bond ( September 9, 1789January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, the first director of Harvard College Observatory.

He and his son George Phillips Bond discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion; it was independently co-discovered at the same time by William Lassell in Britain, and both are given credit.

Father and son pioneered astrophotography, taking the first daguerreotype image of a star ( Vega) in 1850.

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