Danny J. Caes (Danny Jules Caes)

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  • °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.