Leslie Peltier

Leslie Peltier

Leslie Copus Peltier (January 2 1900 – May 10, 1980) was an American astronomer.

He was born in Delphos, Ohio. An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars and member of the AAVSO. Harlow Shapley once described him as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer".

He wrote the heart-warming autobiographical "Starlight Nights" (ISBN 0-933346-94-8), which evokes the magic of stargazing in simpler days, on a farm and without light pollution.

Asteroid 3850 Peltier is named in his honor, as is the Leslie C. Peltier Award of the Astronomical League.

External Links

* [http://www.aavso.org/aavso/membership/lcpeltier.shtml Leslie C. Peltier at the AAVSO]

Obituary

* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/JAVSO/0009//0000032.000.html JAVSO 9 (1980) 32]


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