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Kōichi Itagaki (Japanese: 板垣 公一, Hepburn: Itagaki Kōichi, born 12 November 1947) is an amateur astronomer based in Yamagata, the capital city of Yamagata Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Honshu island, Japan. He is responsible for discovering many comets, and over 170 supernovae. [1]
Minor planets discovered: 624 [1] see § List of discovered minor planets Kin Endate ( 円館 金 , Endate Kin , born December 15, 1960) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered hundreds of asteroids, most of them in collaboration with Kazuro Watanabe , placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets .
Masakatsu Aoki (青木 昌勝, Aoki Masakatsu, born 1957, Toyama Prefecture) is a Japanese amateur astronomer who operates from his private Aoki Astronomical Observatory at Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. [3] His main interest lies in supernovae of which he has discovered a total of 13, such a SN 1999eu as well as SN 2000db and SN 2000di.
Hiroki Kosai (香西 洋樹, Kōsai Hiroki, born 8 February 1933) is a Japanese astronomer with the Kiso Observatory.He is best known for helping to popularize astronomy in Japan and for his observations of comets and asteroids, most notably with his co-discovery the comet 1976 XVI. [2]
Kaoru Ikeya (池谷 薫, Ikeya Kaoru, born 1943) [1] is a Japanese amateur astronomer [2] who discovered a number of comets. As a young adult, Ikeya lived near Lake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made his first discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he built himself within his low budget. [3]
Atsushi Takahashi (高橋 篤志, Takahashi Atsushi, born 1965) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. [2]He lives in Kitami on the island of Hokkaidō in northern Japan, where he observes asteroids and comets at the Kitami Observatory (code 400).
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Tsuneo Niijima (新島 恒男, Niijima Tsuneo, born 1955) is a Japanese farmer and amateur astronomer. [2]He is a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 32 numbered minor planets between 1986 and 1996. [1]