Josep Comas Solà

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Asteroids discovered: 11
804 Hispania March 20, 1915
925 Alphonsina January 13, 1920
945 Barcelona February 3, 1921
986 Amelia October 19, 1922
1102 Pepita November 5, 1928
1117 Reginita May 24, 1927
1136 Mercedes October 30, 1929
1188 Gothlandia September 30, 1930
1626 Sadeya January 10, 1927
1655 Comas Sola November 28, 1929
1708 Pólit December 1, 1929

Josep Comas i Solá (December 17, 1868–December 2, 1937) was a Spanish (Catalan) astronomer. The name is frequently misspelled Solà, even by Spanish or Catalan sources.

He observed planets including Mars and Saturn, measuring the period of rotation of the latter. He wrote some books popularizing astronomy, and was first president of the Sociedad Astrónomica de España y América.

He discovered the periodic comet 32P/Comas Solá, and co-discovered the non-periodic C/1925 F1 (Shajn-Comas Solá); he also discovered some asteroids.

The asteroids 1102 Pepita (from his nickname Pepito) and 1655 Comas Solá are named after him.

In 1907 he claimed to observe limb darkening of Saturn's moon Titan, the first evidence that the body had an atmosphere.

He was the director of Fabra Observatory since it was stablished in 1904.

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