Dennis di Cicco

Dennis di Cicco (* 1950 ) is an American amateur astronomer and asteroid explorer .

He lives in Massachusetts and makes his observations and photographs of asteroids from his private observatory in Sudbury ( IAU code 817). In the period from 1994 to 1997, he discovered 59 asteroids. He works as editor-in-chief of the astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope , of which he has been an editor since 1974. He is particularly interested in astronomical photography and its history, the manufacture of telescopes and astronomical observations. In 1978–79 he was the first to succeed in capturing the analemma photographically by recording 48 separate images on film over a period of 12 months. The project is described in detail in the June 1979 issue of "Sky & Telescope".

The asteroid (3841) Dicicco was named after him.

literature

• Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . 5th ed.Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 (English, preview on Google Book Search )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers
2. ↑ Information about D. di Cicco in Sky & Telescope .