Biography

Domingos Fernandes da Costa, Brazilian astronomer and geographer (São João da Barra, Rio de Janeiro State 1882 – Rio de Janeiro 1956)

Started series of micrometrical measurements on double stars (1921-1926) whose results were sent to Robert T.A. Innes, director from Meteorological Observatory in Johannesburg, and included in general catalogue of Southern Hemisphere.  

Authored observations about Reid, Tempel and Ensor comets in Astronomische Nachrichten (1925)

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

Medidas micrométricas de estrelas duplas efectuadas durante os anos de 1924 a 1926 na equatorial de Cooke de 46 cm (1927)

Levantamento magnético do Valle do Rio São Francisco. Relatório e resumo dos resultados (1914)