Anthony F. J. Moffat is an emeritus professor of astronomy

Astronomy

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 at the Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

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 in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

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, Canada

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. Dr. Moffat was appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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 in 2001. Dr. Moffat’s interests focus on massive stars (Wolf-Rayet stars in particular), stellar winds, binary stars, as well as the structure and dynamics of galaxies.

Professional history

Prof. Moffat completed his Master of Science at the University of Toronto in 1966. His doctorate was granted in 1970 from Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum (Dr. rer. nat.). Following postdoctoral studies at Ruhr-Univ. Bochum from 1970 to 1976, and the awarding of his second Dr. Habil. in 1976, Moffat was hired to the faculty of Université de Montréal in 1976.

Professional progeny

Prof. Moffat has supervised 8 postdoctoral scientists and 14 doctoral students at Université de Montréal.

Massive star clusters

In a series of papers beginning with a study of the open star cluster NGC 7380

NGC 7380

NGC 7380 is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787.William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog . This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus.-External links:*...

and eleven other clusters, Moffat used photographic UBV photometry to identify the massive star population.