Erich Karkoschka

Erich Karkoschka ( born November 6, 1955 in Stuttgart) is an astronomer and mathematician at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona in Tucson and nonfiction author. His father, Erhard Karkoschka was a noted musicologist at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

He discovered the Uranus moon Perdita ( original designation S/1986 U 10 ) to shoot images of the space probe Voyager 2 photographs from the Huygens probe Karkoschka created a movie landing on Saturn's moon Titan.

Publications

• Reiner Merz and Heinrich Girls Generation: astrophotography. As I photograph the sun, moon, planets, stars, comets and satellites? Equipment, processes, objects. Franckh, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-440-04865-9.
• Atlas for sky watchers. The star atlas of the sky year. With 50 star maps of the entire sky. Franckh, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-440-05867-0. ( In English: The Observer 's Sky Atlas Springer, Berlin and others, 1990, ISBN 3-540-51588-7, in Czech:. Astronomický atlas Hvězdné oblohy Atlas Hvězdné oblohy s 50 hvězdnými mapami Vydavatelství a Nakladatelství Blesk, Ostrava 1995. . ISBN 80-85606-67-4 ).