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Joanny-Philippe Lagrula

Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870 – ?) was a French astronomer. He was sometimes referred to as "Philippe Lagrula".

In 1901, he wrote his thesis Étude sur les occultations d'amas d'étoiles par la Lune avec un catalogue normal des Pléiades at the University of Lyon. At the time, occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon were important for measuring the correspondence of the Moon's actual position with that predicted by theory.

He worked at the Observatory of Lyon, France. On August 1 1906 became director of the Quito Observatory for a few years. He then worked at Nice Observatory until no later than 1924, when he joined the staff of Algiers Observatory . He was director of Algiers Observatory from 1931 to 1938, replacing François Gonnessiat who retired. Interestingly, his career path mirrored that of Gonnessiat, who had also worked at Lyon, Quito and Algiers.

At Algiers, one of the staff members working with him was Jean-Louis Lagrula ; this may have been his son.

He discovered one asteroid. The asteroid 1412 Lagrula is named after him.

Asteroids discovered: 1
775 Lumière January 6 1914
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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