Erwin Obermair

Erwin Obermair (29 August 1946 in Hargelsberg – 15 January 2017 in Linz[2]) was an Electrician, Austrian amateur astronomer and co-discoverer of asteroids.

Together with his colleague and amateur astronomer Erich Meyer, Obermair built the private observatory Meyer/Obermair (540) in Davidschlag (municipality Kirchschlag bei Linz, Austria), in 1978.

[3] Obermair was a member of the Astronomical Society of Linz (Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft), from 1974 until his death he was vice president of that association and made regularly observatory tours most of the time.

[2] His most important observations include precisie astrometry of the comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which he observerd together with Erich Meyer and Herbert Raab in 1993.

[5] The main-belt asteroid 9236 Obermair, discovered by his college Erich Meyer at Linz in 1997, was named in his honor.