Timothy B. Hunter, better known asTim Hunter, is an Americanradiologist andamateur astronomer, who was the president of theInternational Dark-Sky Association.^[1]

Hunter received hisM.D. degree fromNorthwestern University in 1968. He teaches as a professor of radiology andorthopaedic surgery at theUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine. He also earned aB.S. degree inmathematics from theUniversity of Arizona in 1980 andM.S. in astronomy fromSwinburne University of Technology in 2006.

Since 1986, Hunter has studied the problem of increasinglight pollution. In 1987, together with David Crawford, he founded theInternational Dark-Sky Association, which has grown to more than 10,000 members in 75 countries (as of 2007). His effort in this field brought him the Presidential Award of theAstronomical League in 2004 and theAmateur Achievement Award of theAstronomical Society of the Pacific in 2005. He is also a member of thePlanetary Science Institute Board of Trustees and a past chairman of the Western Region of theAstronomical League.

Asteroid6398 Timhunter, discovered byCarolyn Shoemaker atPalomar Observatory in 1991, was named in his honor.^[1] The officialnaming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 1 June 1996 (M.P.C. 27330).^[2]

• 2005 ASP Annual Award Winners: Tim Hunter
• University of Arizona - msk biographical sketches
• Planetary Science Institute Board of Trustees
• The Grasslands observatory
• 6398 Timhunter at JPL Small-Body Database Browser

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