Albert Francis Arthur Lofley Jones OBE (9 August 1920 – 11 September 2013) was a New Zealand amateur astronomer, and a prolific variable star and comet observer, a member of the Variable Star Section and the Comet Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand.
[1] He worked as a miller in a rolled oats mill, as a grocery shop owner and in a car assembly factory.
In 1968, he received the Merlin Silver Medal and Prize of the British Astronomical Association for his work in establishing accurate magnitudes of comets.
[3] He won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for his variable star and comet observations in 1998.
[7] The comet C/2000 W1 discovery brought him the Edgar Wilson Award, administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, in 2001.