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Peter Francis Williams (...) è un astronomo amatoriale australiano.

Peter Francis Williams è un astrofilo australiano residente a Heathcote, un suburbio di Sydney: in campo astronomico Williams si occupa principalmente di stelle variabili.

Il 4 novembre 2013, dopo 42 anni di osservazioni, ha raggiunto la raguardevole cifra di 150.000 stime di magnitudine[1]: le sue osservazioni sono registrate presso la AAVSO con la sigla WPX[2].


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Williams ha scoperto, in ordine cronologico:


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Note


  1. (EN) British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section Circular, n. 158, pag. 11-12, dicembre 2013
  2. (EN) Codici degli osservatori AAVSO
  3. (EN) IAUC 6986: 1998 P1; 1998dj
  4. (EN) IAUC 7176: N Vel 1999; C/1999 K4
  5. (EN) IAUC 8700: V2576 Oph = N Oph 2006 No. 2; 2006bp
  6. (EN) The Berenice and Arthur Page Medal Archiviato il 13 febbraio 2020 in Internet Archive.
  7. (EN) The Edgar Wilson Award Recipients
  8. (EN) The Nova/Supernova Award
  9. (EN) Past recipients

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[en] Peter Francis Williams

Peter Francis Williams is an amateur astronomer from New South Wales, Australia. He specializes in early detection of declines in R Coronae Borealis-type stars and the long-term monitoring of several southern Mira variables and eclipsing binary stars. He was the first person who detected the naked-eye Nova known as V382 Velorum in 1999[1] and seven years later he discovered the Nova Ophiuchi 2006.[2] Both discoveries brought him the Nova/Supernova Award of the American Association of Variable Star Observers.[3] In 2007 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.[4] He is a life member of the Sutherland Astronomical Society.
- [it] Peter Francis Williams



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