Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in
Warsaw
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), is a Polish astronomer and professor at the
Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland. In 1997 Pojmański together with professor
Bohdan Paczyński implemented the project
All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS). With the ASAS Alert System Pojmański discovered two new comets:
C/2004 R2 (ASAS) and
C/2006 A1 (Pojmański). Pojmański connects with the ASAS automatic telescope located in
Las Campanas Observatory,
Chile
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, via
Internet
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.
Publications
Eclipsing binaries in ASAS catalogby
B. Paczynski, D. Szczygiel, B. Pilecki, G. Pojmański
The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. V. Declinations 0 deg - 28 deg of the Northern Hemisphereby G. Pojmański, B. Pilecki, D. Szczygiel
The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. IV.18^h - 24^h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphereby G. Pojmański, Gracjan Maciejewski
The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. III. 12h - 18h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphereby G. Pojmański, Gracjan Maciejewski
The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. II.6h-12h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphereby G. Pojmański
The All Sky Automated Survey. A Catalog of almost 3900 variable starsby G. Pojmański
The All Sky Automated Survey. Variable Stars in the 0h - 6h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphereby G.Pojmański
Vertical Structure of Accretion Discs with Hot Coronae in AGNby A. Rożańska, B. Czerny (N.Copernicus Astronomical Center Poland), P.T. Zycki (University of Durham England), G. Pojmański (Astronomical Observatory of Warsaw University Poland)
The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of the Short Period Variable Stars in the Selected Fieldsby G. Pojmański
The All Sky Automated Surveyby G. Pojmanski
See also
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OGLE
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Andrzej Udalski
Andrzej Jarosław Udalski (born 22 January 1957 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish people, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist, and director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. He is also head of the Department of Observa ...
References
ASAS Home Page*
Warsaw University
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Science research (SYNABA II)
External links
Polish telescope discovers new cometarticle in AngolaPress
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Komputerowy łowca komet - Sukces polskiego astronoma
1959 births
Living people
21st-century Polish astronomers
Discoverers of comets
20th-century Polish astronomers
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