Dr Grzegorz Pojmański Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland. In 1997 Pojmański together with professor Bohdan Paczyński

Bohdan Paczynski

Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....

 implemented the project All Sky Automated Survey

All Sky Automated Survey

The All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish project implemented on 7 April 1997 to do photometric monitoring of approximately 20 million stars brighter than 14 magnitude all over the sky. The automatic telescopes discovered two new comets in 2004 and 2006...

 (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

Las Campanas Observatory

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, Chile

Chile

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, via Internet

Internet

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Publications

• Eclipsing binaries in ASAS catalog by B. Paczynski
  Bohdan Paczynski
  Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....
  
  , 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 Hemisphere by 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 Hemisphere by G. Pojmański, Gracjan Maciejewski
• The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. III. 12h - 18h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphere by G. Pojmański, Gracjan Maciejewski
• The All Sky Automated Survey. The Catalog of Variable Stars. II.6h-12h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphere by G. Pojmański
• The All Sky Automated Survey. A Catalog of almost 3900 variable stars by G. Pojmański
• The All Sky Automated Survey. Variable Stars in the 0h - 6h Quarter of the Southern Hemisphere by G.Pojmański
• Vertical Structure of Accretion Discs with Hot Coronae in AGN by 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 Fields by G. Pojmański
• The All Sky Automated Survey by G. Pojmanski

External links

• Polish telescope discovers new comet article in AngolaPress Komputerowy łowca komet - Sukces polskiego astronoma