Carl F. W. Peters

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters (16 April 1844 – 2 December 1894) was a German astronomer.

His key work was on studies of chronometers and the effect of temperature and humidity on their accuracy.

He studied astronomy and mathematics at the Universities of Berlin, Kiel and Munich before obtaining a doctorate from the University of Göttingen with a thesis on the determination of the orbit of minor planet 87 Sylvia.

He also worked on the accuracy of chronometers and examined the effects of temperature and humidity on them.

He edited revisions of Savich's Practical Astronomy and Müller-Pouillet's Cosmical Physics.