Danny J. Caes (Danny Jules Caes)
[edit]- °28-2-1964, Ghent (East Flanders-Belgium).
- Collector of names and nicknames of astronomical objects beyond the solar system (a HUUUUUGE collection!) (probably the world's largest).
- Investigator of SIMBAD Astronomical Database (Centre de Données Stellaires, C.D.S., Strasbourg).
- Explorer of both the New General Catalogue (NGC) and Index Catalogue (IC) of nebulous deepsky objects, and much more astronomical catalogs.
- Moon connoisseur (especially clair-obscur effects at the sunrise and sunset terminator).
- Till 2017: collector of unofficial nomenclature of lunar surface formations (non-I.A.U. names and nicknames), from 2018 onward: collector of astronomical nomenclature (of everything beyond Proxima Centauri).
- Explorer of optical phenomenae in and outside Earth's atmosphere, and also of entoptical phenomenae related to Evangelista Purkyne's discoveries.
- Admirer of the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss), about everything in the world and the universe which is not 100 % investigated and/or explained.