Burnham, Sherburne Wesley (1838–1921)

US astronomer. He published the two-volume General Catalogue of Double Stars 1906.

Burnham was born in Thetford, Vermont. Except for short periods at the Washburn and Lick observatories, he worked as a fulltime shorthand writer in the law courts until he retired 1902. He lived and worked in Chicago 1897–1914, and on two nights each week commuted to the Yerkes Observatory, where he used the 102-cm/40-in refractor for observing close double stars.