Harold Reitsema


Harold James Reitsema is an American astronomer who was part of the teams that discovered Larissa, the fifth of Neptunes known moons, and Telesto, Saturns thirteenth moon. Reitsema and his colleagues discovered the moons through groundbased telescopic observations. Using a coronagraphic imaging system with one of the first chargecoupled devices available for astronomical use, they first observed Telesto on April 8, 1980, just two months after being one of the first groups to observe Janus, also a moon of Saturn. Reitsema, as part of a different team of astronomers, observed Larissa on May 24, 1981, by watching the occultation of a star by the Neptune system.

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