Amateur Astronomy
In 1976 Jay U. Gunter retired and the rest of his life he devoted to amateur astronomy. His main field of study and observation were asteroids. He founded and for more than 15 years published the popular magazine Tonight's Asteroids. It was a bimonthly periodical, distributed free, containing finding charts and news from the world of asteroid studies. It was widely acknowledged for bringing attention of many amateur astronomers to asteroid observation. In 1980 the main belt asteroid 2136 Jugta was named in his honour (the name being an acronym of the first letters of his and his magazine's names). In 1983 he received the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and in 1989 the Caroline Herschel Award of the Western Amateur Astronomer Society.
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