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Amateur astronomer recording observations of the sun. Collectively, amateur astronomers observe a variety of celestial objects and phenomena. Common targets of amateur astronomers include the Sun, the Moon, planets, stars, comets, meteor showers, and a variety of deep sky objects such as star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae. Many amateurs like ...
Martin P. Mobberley (born 1958) is a British amateur astronomer, [1] author, and former electronics engineer.. He takes images of many cosmological objects, including comets, planets, novae, supernovae and asteroids from his observatory in Suffolk, England.
Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...
This is a category for discoveries by specific amateur or professional astronomers. For asteroid discoveries, the assigned alphabetic name should be used as the sortkey. Otherwise, the asteroid's provisional designation should be used. For example: 24899 Dominiona would use [[Category:Discoveries by Christopher Aikman|Dominiona]].
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Pages in category "Discoveries by amateur astronomers" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. #
George Eric Deacon Alcock, MBE (28 August 1912, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire [1] – 15 December 2000) was an English amateur astronomer. He was one of the most successful visual discoverers of novae and comets. George’s interest in astronomy was sparked by his first encounter with the solar eclipse of 8 April 1921. [2]
He spent more than 9,000 hours comet hunting in a career spanning over 50 years. [1] [5] These comets include the periodic comets 96P/Machholz, 141P/Machholz, the non-periodic C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) that were visible with binoculars in the northern sky in 2004 and 2005, C/2010 F4 (Machholz), and C/2018 V1 (Machholz-Fujikawa-Iwamoto) [6] [7] In 1985, comet Machholz 1985-e, was discovered using a ...