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- J. H. LambertPersonPublished orbital elements of the satellite in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch for 1777; a member of the Chicken-brigade and a student of William Herschel; died in September 1777.
- Jacques MontaignePersonObserver at Limoges who saw Neith four times in May 1761 AD.
- James ShortPersonScottish mathematician and maker of reflecting telescopes (1710–1768), who saw Neith once in London in 1740 AD.
- John HerschelPersonAstronomer, son of William Herschel, whose poem of 1837 AD tells of The Fall of Neith; the same year, at the Cape of Good Hope, he discovered the Cat’s Paw Nebula.