David J. Lane

David J. Lane
Born	David J. Lane
Website
davelane.ca/about.html

David J. Lane is a Canadian astronomer at Saint Mary's University, the past president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Director of the Burke-Gaffney^[1], owner of the Abbey-Ridge^[2] observatories, and creator of the planetarium software entitled the Earth Centered Universe. Asteroid 117032 Davidlane is named in his honour. Lane, and fellow Canadian astronomer Paul Gray, discovered supernova 1995F in NGC 2726^[3] and supernova 2005ea in MCG+10-16-61.^[4]

Lane was a featured guest on comet hunter David H. Levy's internet radio show: Let's Talk Stars.^[5]

Lane was also the man who sent images to Paul Gray that the youngest supernova discoverer Kathryn Gray used to discovery a supernova, SN 2010lt in Jan. 2, 2011.

Sources

1. ^ The Burke-Gaffney Observatory
2. ^ The Abbey-Ridge Observatory
3. ^ Lane, D. J.; Gray, P.; Filippenko, A. V.; Barth, A. J."Supernova 1995F in NGC 2726". IAU Circ. , 6138, 1, 1995
4. ^ Lane, D. J.; Gray, P."Supernova 2005ea in MGC+10-16-61". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams, 224, 1, 2005
5. ^ David & Wendee Levy's Let's Talk Stars, 10/03/06

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Name	Lane, David J.
Alternative names	Lane, Dave
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