Dennis di Cicco

Dennis di Cicco ( born 1950 ) is an American amateur astronomer and discoverer of asteroids.

He lives in Massachusetts and makes his observations and photographs of asteroids from his private observatory in Sudbury (IAU code 817 ) from. In the period from 1994 to 1997, he discovered that 59 asteroids. He is editor in chief of Astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope, whose editors he joined in 1974. His special interest is the astronomical photography and their history, manufacture of telescopes and astronomical observations. In the years 1978-79 he was the first who succeeded photographically capture the analemma, when including 48 separate images on a film over a period of 12 months. The project is described in detail in the output of "Sky & Telescope " of June 1979.

The asteroid ( 3841 ) Dicicco was named after him.