John Goodricke and Edward Piggot The Fathers of Variable Star Astronomy

To think that Yorkshire or to be more precise the city of York would become the centre of the astronomical world might seem a bit fanciful, but that is exactly what happened for five brief years in the 1780s.
The two astronomers John Goodricke 1764-1786 and Edward Pigott 1753-1825 became what I called the ‘Fathers of Variable Star Astronomy’ due to the research that they undertook.