Herschel or Herschell may refer to:

People

Herschel (name) Herschel, Herschell, Herschelle or Hershel is a given name and a surname of Germans, German and Jewish origins. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Herschel W. Arant (1887–1941), American legal academic * Herschel Austin (1911– ...

, various people

Places

Herschel, Eastern Cape Herschel is a settlement in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The village is situated north of Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, Lady Grey, due east of Aliwal North. Founded in 1879, it was named after the astr ...

, South Africa *

Herschel, Saskatchewan Herschel is a special service area in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It is the seat of the Rural Municipality of Mountain View No. 318 and held village status prior to December 31, 2006. The populat ...

* Herschel, Yukon *

Herschel Bay Herschel Bay is an Arctic waterway in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located in Nares Strait, west of Smith Sound. Ellesmere Island is to the east, while Cape Sabine on Pim Island Pim Island (previously Bedford Pim Island) i ...

, Canada *

Herschel Heights The Herschel Heights () are a complex of nunataks of which Mimas Peak on the east is the highest, located southwest of the Enceladus Nunataks and near the head of Saturn Glacier in southeastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The eastern part of ...

, Alexander Island, Antarctica *

Herschel Island Herschel Island (; Inuvialuktun: ) is an island in the Beaufort Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean), which lies off the coast of Yukon in Canada, of which it is administratively a part. Part of the Arctic Archipelago, it is Yukon's only large of ...

, Canada * Herschel Island (Chile), an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago *

Mount Herschel Mount Chider () is a notable mountain, high, standing southeast of Mount Hart in the Admiralty Mountains, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and name Mount Chider was mapped by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and ...

, Antarctica *

Cape Sterneck Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Bay ...

, Antarctica

Astronomy

Herschel (crater) There are several impact craters named Herschel in the Solar System, although the best known is the huge crater on Saturn's moon Mimas. Most are named after the eighteenth-century astronomer William Herschel Frederick William Herschel ( ; ; ...

, various craters in the Solar System *

2000 Herschel 2000 Herschel, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered 29 July 1960, by German astronomer Joachim Schubart at S ...

, an asteroid * 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet * Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation), various astronomical catalogues of nebulae *

Herschel Medal The Herschel Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics". It is awarded for a single piece of work so that younger scientists can be candidates for the award. It i ...

, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society *

Herschel Museum of Astronomy The Herschel Museum of Astronomy at 19 New King Street, Bath, Somerset, Bath, England, is a museum that was inaugurated in 1981. It is located in a town house that was formerly the home of William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel, Caroli ...

, in Bath, United Kingdom *

Herschel Space Observatory The Herschel Space Observatory was a space observatory built and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). It was active from 2009 to 2013, and was the largest infrared telescope ever launched until the launch of the James Webb Space Telesco ...

, operated by the European Space Agency *

Herschel wedge A Herschel wedge or Herschel prism is an optical prism used in solar observation to refract most of the light out of the optical path, allowing safe visual observation. It was first proposed and used by astronomer John Herschel in the 1830s. Over ...

, an optical prism used in solar observation *

Herschel's Garnet Star Mu Cephei ( Latinized from μ Cephei, abbreviated Mu Cep or μ Cep), also known as the Garnet Star, is a red supergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 nebula. It is a 4th ...

, a red supergiant star *

William Herschel Telescope The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a optical and near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain. The telescope, which is named after William Hersc ...

, in the Canary Islands * Telescopium Herschelii, a constellation *

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a Supercritical fluid, supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or Volatile ( ...

, for a time known as Herschel

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Allan Herschell Company The Allan Herschell Company was a company that specialized in the creation of amusement rides, particularly carousels and roller coasters. The company manufactured portable machines that could be used by traveling carnival operators. It was st ...

, which specialized in amusement park rides *

Herschel–Bulkley fluid The Herschel–Bulkley fluid is a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid, in which the strain experienced by the fluid is related to the stress in a complicated, non-linear way. Three parameters characterize this relationship: the consiste ...

, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid *

Herschel baronets The Herschel baronetcy, of Slough in the County of Buckingham, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 17 July 1838 for John Herschel Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (; 7 March 1792 – 11 Ma ...

, of the United Kingdom *

Herschel Girls' School Herschel Girls School is a privateday school for girls, located in Claremont, a southern suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. The school has pre-nursery through to grade 12 and is affiliated with the Anglican church, which owns the sch ...

, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town *

Herschel Grammar School Herschel Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school with academy status, located in Slough, Berkshire, England. The headteacher is Mrs Joanne Rockall. The school has around 900 pupils, 250 of whom are in the sixth form. The school star ...

, in Slough, Berkshire, England *

Herschel graph In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, the Herschel graph is a bipartite graph, bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges. It is a polyhedral graph (the graph of a convex polyhedron), and is the smallest polyhedral graph that d ...

, a bipartite undirected graph *

Herschel Greer Stadium Herschel Greer Stadium was a Minor League Baseball baseball park, park in Nashville, Tennessee, on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification, approximately south of the city's downtown district. The facility closed at the ...

, in Nashville, Tennessee *

Herschel the sea lion Herschel the sea lion was the moniker given to a series of male California sea lions in Seattle, Washington, United States. Herschel took up seasonal residence in the early to mid-1980s on the saltwater side of Seattle's Salmon Bay at the Bal ...

, predatory seals in Seattle *

Herschel Walker trade The Herschel Walker trade was the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League (NFL). The deal, completed on October 12, 1989, centered on sending running back Herschel Walker from the Dallas Cowboys to the Minnesota Vikin ...

, the largest player trade in the history of the National Football League * Herschel Supply Co., Canadian backpack manufacturer * USNS ''Hershel "Woody" Williams'' (T-ESB-4), sister ship of USNS ''Lewis B. Puller'' (T-ESB-3), a mobile landing platform * Herschel, a specific

heptomino A heptomino (or 7-omino or septomino) is a polyomino of order 7; that is, a polygon in the plane made of 7 equal-sized squares connected edge to edge. The name of this type of figure is formed with the prefix hept(a)-. When rotations and reflec ...

and

methuselah (cellular automaton) Methuselah (; ''Məṯūšélaḥ'', in pausa ''Məṯūšālaḥ'', "His death shall send" or "Man of the javelin" or "Death of sword"; ''Mathousalas'') was a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. He is claime ...

in Conway’s Game of Life * ''Herschel'', a a 1926 boat of the Mackenzie River watershed

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