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Robert Owen Evans, OAM (20 February 1937 - 8 November 2022) was a minister of the Uniting Church in Hazelbrook, New South Wales and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernovae (42).[1][2][3] Evans was born on 20 February 1937[4] in Sydney, Australia. He graduated from the University of Sydney, majoring in philosophy and modern history. Coming from a religious family, Evans trained to become a Methodist minister and was ordained by the New South Wales Conference in 1967. He served as a circuit minister until his retirement in 1998. He wrote a number of books on the history of evangelism.[5] Evans took up supernova hunting around 1955, but his first adequate instrument, a 10-inch (25 cm) Newtonian telescope was assembled only about 1968. He made his first official supernova discovery in 1981 and found nine more before using larger telescopes. While living in Coonabarabran, New South Wales he used his own 16 inch (40 cm) telescope. From early 1995 to mi

Robert Evans (astronomer) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Australian minister and amateur astronomer Robert Owen Evans Born ( 1937-02-20 ) February 20, 1937 Sydney , Australia Died November 8, 2022 (2022-11-08) (aged 85) Springwood, New South Wales Education University of Sydney Robert Owen Evans , OAM (20 February 1937 – 8 November 2022) was an Australian minister of the Uniting Church in Hazelbrook, New South Wales , and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernovae (42). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

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