Erich Karkoschka
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Erich Karkoschka is an astronomy researcher at the Lunar and Planetary Lab of the University of Arizona. He discovered a satellite of Uranus, S/1986 U 10 (later named Perdita) on photographs taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. [1]
He wrote the book The Observer's Sky Atlas, published in paperback in 2000.
He also assembled the movie of the Huygens landing on the Titan moon.
Erich Karkoschka was born and grew up in the Stuttgart area. His father was a famous professor for modern music composition at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.
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