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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]
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]
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.
Ishigaki, a stunning white island in Japan's Okinawa archipelago, is the top trending travel destination for 2018 on TripAdvisor — but you'd be forgiven for never having heard of it.
Hiroshi Abe (安部 裕史, Abe Hiroshi, born 1958) is a Japanese amateur astronomer affiliated with the Yatsuka Observatory. [2] He is noted for numerous discoveries, including his 2007 discovery of the Nova Vulpeculae, [3] and 28 numbered minor planets during 1993–1999.
Kazuro Watanabe is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 671 minor planets made between 1987 and 2000. [1]Some of his discoveries include (in alphabetical order) the minor planets 4263 Abashiri (Florian asteroid), 4585 Ainonai, 46610 Bésixdouze, 5331 Erimomisaki, 3915 Fukushima, 5474 Gingasen (Vestian binary), 9971 Ishihara, 11949 Kagayayutaka, 5481 Kiuchi, 6498 Ko (slow ...
This is a category for discoveries by Japanese amateur astronomer Takao Kobayashi. See parent category for proper sortkey usage instructions. Pages in category ...
This is a category for discoveries by Japanese amateur astronomer Hiroshi Abe. See parent category for proper sortkey usage instructions. Pages in category "Discoveries by Hiroshi Abe (astronomer)"