Hans-Emil Schuster

Who is Hans-Emil Schuster?

Hans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory, and was former acting director of La Silla Observatory. Since 1982, he was married to Rosemarie Schuster née von Holt

He discovered periodic comet 106P/Schuster. He also discovered the comet C/1976 D2, which was notable for its large perihelion distance of 6.88 AU, the largest yet observed at the time.

He discovered 25 asteroids, including notably the Apollo asteroid 2329 Orthos and the Amor asteroids 2608 Seneca, 3271 Ul, 3288 Seleucus, and 3908 Nyx. He discovered the near-Earth asteroid 161989 Cacus, which was lost and not recovered until 2003.

Schuster participated in the exploration, selection and testing of the sites of two ESO observatories: La Silla Observatory and Paranal Observatory.

He also participated in two ESO Southern Sky Surveys: the ESO-B survey completed in 1978 was the first deep optical survey of the southern sky; and the "Red Sky Survey". Photographic plates were taken with the ESO's 1-meter Schmidt Telescope at La Silla.