Herbert Couper Wilson (1858-1940), US astronomer. Wilson was best-known as associate editor or editor of the US magazine Popular Astronomy, from 1894 to 1926. Wilson's worked and studied for almost all his career at Carleton College, Minnesota, USA, from his time as a student in 1872 to his death in 1940. From 1880 to 1886 he worked at the Cincinnati Observatory, making observations of double stars, asteroids and comets. At Carleton College from 1887 he worked as a teacher and administrator, director of research at the Goodsell Observatory (1908-1926), and editor of astronomical periodicals. The latter work included The Sidereal Messenger, the precursor to Popular Astronomy. Photograph published in 1926 in Popular Astronomy.