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Kaoru Ikeya (池谷 薫,Ikeya Kaoru; born 1943)[1] is a Japaneseamateur astronomer[2] who discovered a number of comets.
As a young adult, Ikeya lived nearLake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made hisfirst discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he built himself within his low budget.[3] Two years later, he discovered the bright cometC/1965 S1 (Ikeya-Seki). Ikeya discovered the periodic comet153P/Ikeya-Zhang on February 1, 2002, inMori, Hokkaidō.[4][5] Theasteroid4037 Ikeya is also named after Ikeya. On November 13, 2010, Ikeya andShigeki Murakami co-discovered the cometP/2010 V1, now known as332P/Ikeya-Murakami, using an optical telescope, rare in an era with access to digital imaging technology.[2]
Ikeya contributed his skill to the perfectly ground optics used in the construction of thePentax 40 cmCassegrain reflector telescope installed at theSingapore Science Centre Observatory in March, 1989.[6]
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