Chernysh Nicolay Stepanovich General data:
06.10.1931 - 26.05.2004
Place of birth: Usman village, Voronezh region, Russian SSR
Studied in: Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute (since 2014 Pedagogical Institute of Irkutsk State University) (1954-1959);
Key interests: celestial mechanics, minor bodies of the Solar System, space missions. ScD Thesis: Crimean review of the Minor Planet (1999 Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine);
Biography:
He was born on October 6, 1931 in the Usman village of Voronezh region of Russian SSR.
When the Great Patriotic War of the USSR against Hitler's Germany, which was part of World War II, began, the family was evacuated to the Sheragul village of Tulun district of Irkutsk region.
After graduating from school, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. After serving to study astronomy, in 1954 he entered the Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute.
Kaverina. As a student since 1956 he worked at the observatory in Irkutsk city under the direction of A. A. Kaverin. Together with his wife, L. I. Chernykh, and Rumyantsev V. V. he conducted a large series of visual and photographic observations of Comet Mrcos 1957d. Observations were made of the Great Confrontation of Mars in 1956, a number of lunar and solar eclipses, the coverage of stars by the moon. Since 1957, he and his wife spent two summer seasons in the Irkutsk program of observations of silver clouds. In 1958 he began working in the time laboratory under the direction of L. M. Nadeev as an astronomer-observer. He first observed the exact time program on a passage instrument, and then worked with Dungeon's astrolabe.
In 1959 (according to other sources in 1958) he graduated from the Irkutsk State Pedagogical Institute.
In 1961 he entered the graduate school of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy of the RSFSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, which he graduated in 1964.
In March 1963, he arrived at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and on September 1, 1963, he was enrolled in the staff of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in the Minor Planets Department. He participated in the observations of the automatic lunar station "Luna-4".
On October 13, 1966, he discovered his first asteroid. Small planet #1737 was named "Severniy".
On September 20, 1982, he discovered the asteroid of the main asteroid belt 8141 Nikolaev, which had name in honor of Nikolaev city.
In 1999 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Crimean survey of small planets" at the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the specialty 01.03.01 - "Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics". The dissertation was also considered in the dissertation council D 002.067.01 at the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The asteroid (2325) Chernykh, discovered in 1979 by Czechoslovak astronomer Antonin Mrkos, was named after the Cherny couple.
In 2004 he and his wife Chernykh L. I. became a laureate of the E. P. Fedorov Prize for the work "Crimean survey of small planets".
He died on May 26, 2004.
Scientific works concern the study of astrometry and dynamics of small bodies of the solar system. Under his leadership, many astrometric observations of small planets and comets, discovered asteroids over the past 200 years. He discovered 533 (according to other sources 537) small planets and two periodic comets 74P / Smirnova - Black and 101P / Black, conducted astrometric observations of almost all known small planets. Since 1963, the team of Chernykh N.S. About 1500 minor planets were discovered with the help of a double 16-inch telescope.
He participated in the laser locations of the Moon at the 2.6-meter reflector of the Crimean Astronomical Observatory during 1963-1970).
He is the author of more than 150 scientific papers.
Main publications:
1. Каверин А. А., Куклин Г. В., Черных Н. С., Черных Л. И. Наблюдения прохождения Меркурия по диску Солнца 6 мая 1957г. в Иркутске. АЦ № 181, 1957, с. 16–17.
2. Каверин А. А., Куклин Г. В., Черных Н. С., Ханжин А. Г., Егорченко И. Ф., Сазонова З. Г., Дунцова М. С. Обстоятельства видимости кольцеобразного солнечного затмения 19.04.1958 г. для 86 городов СССР. Астрономический календарь на 1958 год, ГИТТЛ, 1957.
3. Каверин А. А., Куклин Г. В., Куклина В. А., Сазонова З. Г., Черных Л. И., Черных Н. С., Егорченко И. Ф. Обстоятельства видимости полного солнечного затмения 2.10.1959 для 144 городов СССР. Астрономический календарь на 1959 год, Физматгиз, 1958, с. 76–79.
4. Каверин А. А., Куклин Г. В., Черных Н. С. Обстоятельства видимости частного солнечного затмения 20–21.9.1960 для 15 городов СССР. Астрономический календарь на 1960 год, Физматгиз, 1959, с. 89.
Sources:
1 Бохан Н. А. Работы Института теоретической астрономии АН СССР по исследованию движения комет (1963−1966 гг.)//Астрометрия и Астрофизика, 1969, № 4, С. 188
2 День в історії астрономії
3 ru.wikipedia.org
4 Українські фізики та астрономи. Посібник-довідник/Автор-укладач В. Шаронова.-Тернопіль: Підручники і посібники, 2007.-304с.-С. 221-222
