Named in honor of Coelestine, née Mauthner von Markhof, wife of Theodor von Oppolzer, professor of astronomy in Vienna. Coelestine was the daughter of the well-known Viennese industrialist family Mauthner von Markhof. (Vierteljahrsschr. Astron. Ges., 22. Jahrg., p. 191 (1887)) _ _.