Editing Ercole Dembowski (section)

==Biography==
Dembowski was born in [[Milan]]. He inherited the title of "Baron" as the son of [[Jan Dembowski (general)|Jan Dembowski]] (Dębowski), one of [[Napoleon]]'s [[Poland|Polish]] generals. He served in [[Austro-Hungarian Navy|the navy]] of [[Austria-Hungary]] until 1843 when he retired for health reasons to [[Naples]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |year=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |accessdate=August 22, 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58354.html}}</ref>

He was a tireless observer of [[double star]]s and made tens of thousands of [[Micrometer (device)|micrometer]] measurements.  In particular, he remeasured many double stars from [[Friedrich Struve]]'s ''Dorpat Catalogue'', noting how some of them had changed position over the years due to their mutual orbit as [[binary star]]s.

He won the [[Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society]] in 1878.

The crater [[Dembowski (crater)|Dembowski]] on the [[Moon]] is named after him, as well as the [[Asteroid belt|main belt]] [[asteroid]] [[349 Dembowska]].