Fernand Courty

Asteroids discovered: 2
384 Burdigala February 11, 1894
387 Aquitania March 5, 1894

F. Courty (died October 12, 1921) was a French astronomer.

He joined Bordeaux Observatory when it was founded in 1880 by Georges Rayet and worked as an assistant astronomer; he discovered two asteroids there. He also made meteorological observations.

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