Arto Oksanen

Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer. He has been actively working in the fields of variable stars, asteroid search programs, gamma ray bursts, CCD photometry and building amateur observatories in Finland. He has been mostly working in the Nyrölä Observatory that is located about 20 kilometers (12 mi) from the city of Jyväskylä in Finland. In 2004, Oksanen received the AAVSO Directors Award for his work in variable star research and observing. In October 2007, Oksanen was the first to find optical afterglow of GRB 071010B which had been detected by Swift satellite only 17 minutes before.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Amateur finds GRB afterglow". Astronomy. 15 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-27.


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