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Auguste Honoré Charlois (November 26 1864 – March 26, 1910) was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.
| 267 Tirza | May 27 1887 |
| 272 Antonia | February 4 1888 |
| 277 Elvira | May 3 1888 |
| 282 Clorinde | January 28 1889 |
| 283 Emma | February 8 1889 |
| 284 Amalia | May 29 1889 |
| 285 Regina | August 3 1889 |
| 289 Nenetta | March 10 1890 |
| 293 Brasilia | May 20 1890 |
| 294 Felicia | July 15 1890 |
| 296 Phaëtusa | August 19 1890 |
| 297 Caecilia | September 9 1890 |
| 298 Baptistina | September 9 1890 |
| 300 Geraldina | October 3 1890 |
| 302 Clarissa | November 14 1890 |
| 305 Gordonia | February 16 1891 |
| 307 Nike | March 5 1891 |
| 310 Margarita | May 16 1891 |
| 311 Claudia | June 11 1891 |
| 312 Pierretta | August 28 1891 |
| 314 Rosalia | September 1 1891 |
| 316 Goberta | September 8 1891 |
| 317 Roxane | September 11 1891 |
| 318 Magdalena | September 24 1891 |
| 319 Leona | October 8 1891 |
| 327 Columbia | March 22 1892 |
| 331 Etheridgea | April 1 1892 |
| 336 Lacadiera | September 19 1892 |
| 337 Devosa | September 22 1892 |
| 338 Budrosa | September 25 1892 |
| 344 Desiderata | November 15 1892 |
| 345 Tercidina | November 23 1892 |
| 346 Hermentaria | November 25 1892 |
| 347 Pariana | November 28 1892 |
| 348 May | November 28 1892 |
| 349 Dembowska | December 9 1892 |
| 350 Ornamenta | December 14 1892 |
| 354 Eleonora | January 17 1893 |
| 355 Gabriella | January 20 1893 |
| 356 Liguria | January 21 1893 |
| 357 Ninina | February 11 1893 |
| 358 Apollonia | March 8 1893 |
| 359 Georgia | March 10 1893 |
| 360 Carlova | March 11 1893 |
| 361 Bononia | March 11 1893 |
| 362 Havnia | March 12 1893 |
| 363 Padua | March 17 1893 |
| 364 Isara | March 19 1893 |
| 365 Corduba | March 21 1893 |
| 366 Vincentina | March 21 1893 |
| 367 Amicitia | May 19 1893 |
| 368 Haidea | May 19 1893 |
| 370 Modestia | July 14 1893 |
| 371 Bohemia | July 16 1893 |
| 372 Palma | August 19 1893 |
| 373 Melusina | September 15 1893 |
| 374 Burgundia | September 18 1893 |
| 375 Ursula | September 18 1893 |
| 376 Geometria | September 18 1893 |
| 377 Campania | September 20 1893 |
| 378 Holmia | December 6 1893 |
| 379 Huenna | January 8 1894 |
| 380 Fiducia | January 8 1894 |
| 381 Myrrha | January 10 1894 |
| 382 Dodona | January 29 1894 |
| 383 Janina | January 29 1894 |
| 388 Charybdis | March 7 1894 |
| 389 Industria | March 8 1894 |
| 395 Delia | November 30 1894 |
| 396 Aeolia | December 1 1894 |
| 397 Vienna | December 19 1894 |
| 398 Admete | December 28 1894 |
| 400 Ducrosa | March 15 1895 |
| 402 Chloë | March 21 1895 |
| 403 Cyane | May 18 1895 |
| 404 Arsinoë | June 20 1895 |
| 405 Thia | July 23 1895 |
| 406 Erna | August 22 1895 |
| 409 Aspasia | December 9 1895 |
| 410 Chloris | January 7 1896 |
| 411 Xanthe | January 7 1896 |
| 414 Liriope | January 16 1896 |
| 416 Vaticana | May 4 1896 |
| 423 Diotima | December 7 1896 |
| 424 Gratia | December 31 1896 |
| 425 Cornelia | December 28 1896 |
| 426 Hippo | August 25 1897 |
| 427 Galene | August 27 1897 |
| 429 Lotis | November 23 1897 |
| 430 Hybris | December 18 1897 |
| 431 Nephele | December 18 1897 |
| 432 Pythia | December 18 1897 |
| 437 Rhodia | July 16 1898 |
| 438 Zeuxo | November 8 1898 |
| 441 Bathilde | December 8 1898 |
| 451 Patientia | December 4 1899 |
| 453 Tea | February 22 1900 |
| 498 Tokio | December 2 1902 |
| 537 Pauly | July 7 1904 |
His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887. He photographed 433 Eros on the very night of its discovery by Gustav Witt, but was not able to act quickly enough before Witt announced his find.
Although he started searching for asteroids in the era of visual detection, by 1891 Max Wolf had pioneered the use of astrophotography to drastically speed up the rate of detection of asteroids, and both Wolf and Charlois separately discovered far more asteroids than would have been feasible by visual detection.
He was murdered by his brother-in-law (brother of his first wife) at the age of 46, who held a grudge against him because he had remarried. The man was found guilty and given a life sentence of hard labor in New Caledonia.
The asteroid 1510 Charlois was named in his honour.
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