- Hans-Emil Schuster
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birthplace =Hamburg ,Germany
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occupation = Astronomer
nationality = German
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website =Hans-Emil Schuster (born
September 19 1934 inHamburg ) is a Germanastronomer (retired since October1991 ). He worked atHamburg Observatory atBergedorf andEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO), and was former director ofLa Silla Observatory . Since 1982, he was married to Rosemarie Schuster née von Holt (March 28,1935 - September 18, 2006)He discovered periodic
comet 106P/Schuster . He also discovered the cometC/1976 D2 (in the contemporary nomenclature, it was known as Comet 1975 II or 1976c), which was notable for its largeperihelion distance of 6.88 AU [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/02900/02923.html#Item1] [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iauc/02900/02958.html#Item1] , the largest yet observed at the time.He discovered 24
asteroid s, including notably theApollo asteroid 2329 Orthos and theAmor asteroid s2608 Seneca ,3271 Ul ,3288 Seleucus , and3908 Nyx . He discovered thenear-earth asteroid 1978 CA , which was lost and not recovered until2003 .Schuster participated in the exploration, selection and testing of the sites of two ESO observatories: La Silla Observatory and
Paranal Observatory (the latter is theVLT site).He also participated in two ESO Southern Sky Surveys: the ESO-B survey ("Quick-Blue Survey") completed in
1978 was the first deep optical survey of the southern sky; and the "Red Sky Survey". Photographic plates were taken with the ESO's 1-meter Schmidt Telescope at La Silla.He co-discovered the
Phoenix Dwarf galaxy (withRichard M. West ), and in 1976 also discovered theEridanus Globular Cluster , one of the most distantglobular cluster s in thegalactic halo . In 1980, he discovered a type-IIsupernova in thegalaxy NGC 1255. However, "Schuster's Spiral" (Horologium Dwarf ) is not named after him, but a different Schuster.The
asteroid 2018 Schuster was named in his honour.
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