Herbert Raab

This article deals with the astronomer Herbert Raab. For the historian, see Heribert Raab .

Herbert Raab (born January 24, 1969 in Linz ) is an Austrian computer scientist , amateur astronomer and asteroid discoverer .

Life

Raab studied computer science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz and graduated in 1995 as a graduate engineer . In 2012 he graduated with a Master of Science in the university course Management for Engineers at the LIMAK Austrian Business School , where he also completed the Master of Business Administration in 2013 . Professionally, he works as a software engineer in the field of commercial software.

He joined the Linz Astronomical Association in 1983 , from 1996 to 2017 he was chairman of this association and head of the Johannes Kepler observatory in Linz . From 1990 he developed the popular software Astrometrica , which is used for astrometric and photometric evaluation of recordings of asteroids and comets . His most important observations include precise position measurements of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 , which he was able to obtain in 1993 together with Erich Meyer and Erwin Obermair and which have made a significant contribution to predicting the subsequent impact of this comet on the planet Jupiter .

On August 10, 1997, he and Erich Meyer discovered the asteroid (13682) Pressberger at the Meyer / Obermair private observatory in Davidschlag . In addition, he was involved in three other asteroid discoveries, which were awarded by the International Astronomical Union to the Davidschlag observatory. On the occasion of the coverage of the star HIP 76293 through the asteroid (1177) Gonnessia discovered on 18 May 2007 Raab that it is in the star around a narrow double star is, the components of which are at a distance of only 0.04 ".

Awards

The asteroid (3184) Raab was named after him in May 1996 at the suggestion of Brian Marsden and Gareth V. Williams . On April 4, 1997 he was awarded the gold medal for services to the Republic of Austria .

Web links

• Publications by Herbert Raab in the SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile of Herbert Raab on XING ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed January 10, 2015. 
2. ↑ Annual General Meeting 2018, in: WEGA , Volume 48, No. 01/2018, p. 2. Accessed on October 23, 2018.
3. ^ Website of the Astrometrica software . Accessed January 10, 2015.
4. ↑ IAUC 5800: Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (1993e) . Accessed January 10, 2015.
5. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers . Accessed January 10, 2015.
6. ↑ Minor Planet Discoveries - Website of the Davidschlag Observatory ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed January 10, 2015.
7. ↑ euraster.net: 2007 European Asteroidal Occultation Results . Retrieved June 14, 2015
8. ↑ D. Herald et al .: "New Double Stars from Asteroidal Occultations, 1971-2008" In: Journal of Double Star Observations, Vol. 1, p. 88ff ( online )
9. ^ LD Schmadel: "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", 5th Ed., P. 264
10. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Accessed January 10, 2015.