Paul Achille‐Ariel Baize (11 March 1901 – 6 October 1995) was a French

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and amateur astronomer specialising in

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observations. He started with his observations of double stars in 1925. Between 1933 and 1971 he was allowed to observe from the

Paris Observatory The Paris Observatory (french: Observatoire de Paris ), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world. Its histor ...

. He made 20,044 measures over 47 years. Since 1954 he often published at the International Astronomical Union Commission 26 Information Circular, the last contribution sending in 1993, when he was 92 years old. In 1989 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The asteroid

1591 Baize Events January–June * March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the fractured Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by a ...

was named in his honour.

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French astronomers, visual double stars and the double stars working group of the Société Astronomique de France
20th-century French astronomers Amateur astronomers 1901 births 1995 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{france-astronomer-stub