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  • Professor P. Devadas (c. 1923 – 18 December 2015) was an amateur astronomer from India. A fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the...
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  • Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomer from New South Wales, Australia. He specializes in early detection of declines in R Coronae Borealis-type...
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  • Richard D. Lines (April 21, 1916 – June 29, 1992) was an American amateur astronomer. He started as a deep-sky observer and photographer, but later specialized...
    3 KB (210 words) - 12:45, 27 March 2024
  • James McMahon is an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his visual observations of asteroid occultations. In 1978 his observation of the occultation...
    2 KB (125 words) - 17:57, 26 June 2021
  • Richard Huziak (born March 18, 1957) is a Canadian amateur astronomer. The International Astronomical Union named main-belt asteroid 4143 Huziak after...
    6 KB (440 words) - 13:52, 14 January 2024
  • Gliese 69 is a star located in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It has an apparent magnitude of 8.40. Parallax measurements by Hipparcos put it at a distance...
    5 KB (395 words) - 21:22, 17 June 2023
  • Matthew "Tippy" D'Auria (1935–2018) was the founder of the Winter Star Party held each year in the Florida Keys sponsored by the Southern Cross Astronomical...
    3 KB (269 words) - 05:48, 16 July 2023
  • Let There Be Light: Modern Cosmology and Kabbalah, a New Conversation Between Science and Religion is a book by Howard Smith, an astrophysicist. The book...
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  • Nigel Press (born 8 March 1949) is a British geologist who pioneered the development of commercial applications of satellite earth observation technology...
    8 KB (1,019 words) - 15:32, 8 January 2024