Herschel or Herschell may refer to:

People

  • Herschel (name), various people

Places

  • Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  • Herschel, Saskatchewan
  • Herschel, Yukon
  • Herschel Bay, Canada
  • Herschel Heights, Alexander Island, Antarctica
  • Herschel Island, Canada
  • Herschel Island (Chile), an island of the Hermite Islands archipelago
  • Mount Herschel, Antarctica
  • Cape Sterneck, Antarctica

Astronomy

  • Herschel (crater), various craters in the Solar System
  • 2000 Herschel, an asteroid
  • 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, a comet
  • Herschel Catalogue (disambiguation), various astronomical catalogues of nebulae
  • Herschel Medal, awarded by the UK Royal Astronomical Society
  • Herschel Museum of Astronomy, in Bath, United Kingdom
  • Herschel Space Observatory, operated by the European Space Agency
  • Herschel wedge, an optical prism used in solar observation
  • Herschel's Garnet Star, a red supergiant star
  • William Herschel Telescope, in the Canary Islands
  • Telescopium Herschelii, a constellation
  • Uranus, for a time known as Herschel

Other uses

  • Allan Herschell Company, which specialized in amusement park rides
  • Herschel–Bulkley fluid, a generalized model of a non-Newtonian fluid
  • Herschel baronets, of the United Kingdom
  • Herschel Girls' School, a private day and boarding school in Cape Town
  • Herschel Grammar School, in Slough, Berkshire, England
  • Herschel graph, a bipartite undirected graph
  • Herschel Greer Stadium, in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Herschel the sea lion, predatory seals in Seattle
  • Herschel Walker trade, 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 and methuselah (cellular automaton) in Conway’s Game of Life
  • Herschel, a a 1926 boat of the Mackenzie River watershed

See also

  • Hersch
  • Hirsch (disambiguation)
  • Hirsh