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According to a proposal by Otto Kippes, who verified the discovery, it was named after German amateur astronomer Julius Steinmetz (1893–1965) from Gerolfingen.
According to a proposal by Otto Kippes, who verified the discovery, it was named after Austrian amateur astronomer Karl Mayrhofer from Ried im Innkreis.
Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
In 1994 the retired structural engineer and amateur astronomer Michael Tubridy was called in to research and re-design the Rosse six-foot telescope.
It is named after Koichi Sato, a government official and amateur astronomer in Nan'yō, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
The storm was named for Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby, a naval instructor and amateur astronomer who, based on his astronomical studies, had predicted extremely high tides in the North Atlantic Ocean on October 1, 1869, which would produce storm surges in the event of a storm.
The storm (which pre-dated the practice of naming hurricanes) was given the name "Saxby" in honor of Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby, Royal Navy, who was a naval instructor and amateur astronomer.
On 10 September 2012 at 11:35 UT amateur astronomer Dan Petersen visually detected a fireball on Jupiter that lasted 1 or 2 seconds using a Meade 12″ LX200.
It is named for Rolf Apitzsch, a German amateur astronomer at the Observatorium Wildberg in Wildberg, Baden-Württemberg.
It is named after Dr. Warwick Kissling, an amateur astronomer and mathematical modeller from Wellington, New Zealand.
It is named after Vincenzo Sfiligoi, an Italian public accountant and amateur astronomer in Gorizia, Italy.
It is named after Davide Crespi, an Italian amateur astronomer from Novara.
It is named after David Dunlap, a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and amateur astronomer of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the namesake of the David Dunlap Observatory.
It is named after Gilberto Franco, an amateur astronomer, medical doctor in San Damiano d'Asti, Italy, and friend of Zappalà.
Albert Graham Ingalls (1888–1958), American scientific editor and amateur astronomer
Arthur Francis O'Donel Alexander (1896–1971) was an English amateur astronomer and author.
The Bangalore Astronomical Society (BAS) is a society of amateur astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Bangalore.
The Projection Blink Comparator (PROBLICOM), invented by amateur astronomer Ben Mayer, was a low-cost version of the professional tool.
This prompted amateur astronomer and writer Gary W. Kronk to search for previous apparitions of this comet.
Donald Edward Machholz, born October 7, 1952 in Portsmouth, Virginia, is an American amateur astronomer from Colfax, California.
Edmond Modeste Lescarbault (1814, Châteaudun - 1894), was a French doctor and an amateur astronomer, best remembered for his 1859 observation of the non-existent planet Vulcan.
Edward Knobel, (1841–1930) a British business man and amateur astronomer
The observatory was the result of a donation in 1944 from Nils Tamm, an artist who had studied astronomy in his youth under Nils Christoffer Dunér and Östen Bergstrand in Uppsala and remained an avid amateur astronomer throughout his life.
The award is named in honor of Leslie Peltier, an amateur astronomer from Delphos, Ohio, who Harlow Shapley described as "the world's greatest nonprofessional astronomer".
From 1976 through 1990 amateur astronomer Donald Machholz set up his telescope an average of 120 times a year on the south slope of this mountain to search for comets.
In 1998, the light from a supernova in NGC 3982 (later called SN 1998aq) reached earth and was discovered by British amateur astronomer Mark Armstrong.
It was discovered on 14 August 2013 by amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki in Japan, and confirmed by the Liverpool Telescope on La Palma.
Peter B. Lawrence is a British amateur astronomer best known for his popularization of astronomy on the BBC's The Sky at Night with Sir Patrick Moore, Paul Abel and Dr. Chris Lintott.
Russell W. Porter (1871–1949), American artist, engineer, amateur astronomer and explorer
Uranus was discovered in 1781 by an amateur astronomer named William Herschel.
SN 2005B, the second supernova discovered in 2005, was discovered by amateur astronomer Paul Gray, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, upon reviewing film shot by fellow amateur astronomer David J. Lane, at his backyard observatory in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Nearby Trefenty House became the home of a branch of the Perrot family in the 16th century, and it was here that the amateur astronomer Sir William Lower and a neighbour, John Protheroe, set up one of Britain's first telescopes in 1609, which they used to study the craters of the Moon and Halley's Comet.
Nik Szymanek, British amateur astronomer and astrophotographer
Zvi pursued a successful career as an industrial engineer; he was also an amateur astronomer who, in 1953, built a telescope for Albert Einstein.