too asked astronomers to search for the planet. They ignored him.
Finally, German astronomer Johann Galle agreed to look for the planet. At the Berlin Observatory in 1846, Galle viewed the skies through a telescope. He checked what he saw against earlier pictures of that particular section of sky. After a short time, he saw a star that wasn't previously noted in his star chart. The next evening he looked again for that star and found that it had moved slightly. Because it moved so quickly, he knew it wasn't a star. It was a planet!
