Christian August Friedrich Peters (September 7 1806–May 8 1880) was a German astronomer. He was the father of astronomer Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters. He was born in Hamburg and died in Kiel. Beginning in 1826 he was the assistant of Heinrich Christian Schumacher at Altona Observatory. He then became an assistant at Hamburg Observatory in 1834, and in 1839 joined the staff of Pulkovo Observatory. In 1849 he became professor of astronomy at Königsberg and soon after succeeded Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel as director of the observatory there. In 1854 he became director of Altona Observatory and continued with the publication of Astronomische Nachrichten. In 1872 the observatory moved to Kiel and he moved there and continued in his post. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1852.
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