Eddington

Eddington or Edington may refer to:

People

Main article: Eddington (surname)

• Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist
• Eddington Varmah, Liberian politician

Places

Australia

• Eddington, Victoria

United Kingdom

• Eddington, Berkshire
• Eddington, Kent
• Edington, Somerset
• Edington, Wiltshire
  • Edington Priory

United States of America

• Eddington, Maine
• Eddington, Pennsylvania
  • Eddington (SEPTA station)

Other uses

• Eddington (horse), American thoroughbred racehorse

Named after Sir Arthur Eddington

• Eddington (crater), on the Moon
• Eddington (spacecraft), a cancelled ESA mission to search for extrasolar planets
• Eddington luminosity or Eddington limit, relating to the maximum mass of a star
• Eddington Medal, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
• Eddington number, the number of protons in the observable universe
• Eddington–Dirac number, alternative name for the Dirac large numbers hypothesis
• Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates, in the theory of general relativity