Albert Marth

Albert Marth (5 May 1828 – 6 August 1897)[1] was a German astronomer who worked in Britain and Ireland.

[2] Marth went to England in 1853 to work for George Bishop, a rich wine merchant and patron of astronomy, who financed a London observatory (in operation from 1836 to 1861).

He worked as William Lassell's assistant in Malta, discovering 600 nebulae.

From 1883 to 1897 he worked at the Markree Observatory in County Sligo where he was the second director appointed in its second period of operation.

[3] He made extensive ephemerides of Solar System bodies.