Erich Karkoschka

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Erich Karkoschka (* 1955 in Stuttgart ) is a planetologist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona in Tucson . He discovered the Uranus moon Perdita and is known for his atlas for celestial observers, which has been published in several editions .

Live and act

Karkoschka began observing planets at the Stuttgart observatory in the early 1970s . After the Carl Zeiss Planetarium Stuttgart was opened in 1977 , he also worked there. From 1983 he studied planetary science at the University of Arizona . 1990 Karkoschka was with a thesis on the atmosphere of Saturn's doctorate . He has been with the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory since 1983 .

In 1999, the Voyager 2 space probe discovered the Uranus moon Perdita (original name: S / 1986 U 10), the existence of which was finally confirmed in 2003 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Erich Karkoschka is the author of the book Atlas for Sky Observers , which is aimed at amateur astronomers and has been published in several editions since 1988, as well as in an English and a Czech translation.

Two of Karkoschka's images of the planets Jupiter and Uranus were used for a series of United States Postal Service stamps . In 2006 the asteroid (30786) Karkoschka was named after him.

His father Erhard Karkoschka was a composer.

Publications (selection)

  • with Reiner Merz and Heinrich Treutner: Astrophotography. How do I photograph the sun, moon, planets, stars, comets and satellites? Devices, processes, objects. Franckh, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-440-04865-9 .
  • Atlas for sky watchers. Franckh, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-440-05867-0 . (6th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-440-15147-1 , English edition: The Observer's Sky Atlas. Springer, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-48537-9 .)
  • Finding stars in the southern sky. KOSMOS Verlag, Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-440-15156-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data record on the person in the German National Library (DNB), accessed on April 30, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Erich Karkoschka: The influence of the planets on people. In: 75 Years of the Stuttgart Observatory. Stuttgart 1997/2004.
  3. ^ Staff page at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , accessed April 30, 2020.
  4. ↑ IAUC 7171: S / 1986 U 10; C / 1999 J2; V1333 Aql
  5. ^ E. Karkoschka: Voyager's Eleventh Discovery of a Satellite of Uranus and Photometry and the First Size Measurements of Nine Satellites. In: Icarus. Volume 151, number 1, 2001, pp. 69-77, doi : 10.1006 / icar.2001.6597 .
  6. ^ MR Showalter: The Second Ring-Moon System of Uranus: Discovery and Dynamics. In: Science. Volume 311, number 5763, 2006, pp. 973-977, doi : 10.1126 / science.1122882 .
  7. ^ Daniel Stolte: UA Planetary Science Gets Stamps of Approval. In: UA News. May 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 56614
personal data
SURNAME Karkoschka, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German planetologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart