Erwin Schwab (born 1964) is a German amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, who works at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, near Darmstadt, Germany.
As volunteer scientist for the European Space Agency (ESA) he recovered near-Earth objects and comets.
[8][9] Using the Schmidt telescope at Calar Alto Observatory (Z84) to search for a lost comet he discovered in 2019 a unique variable star – the first known eclipsing stream-fed intermediate polar, cataloged as J1832.4-1627 (VSX-Id of AAVSO: 000-BNG-512)[10][11][12][13] Schwab was born in Heppenheim,[3][14] where he started observing minor planets at the Starkenburg Observatory in 1981.
[15] The Observatorio Astronómico de La Sagra in Spain has named the main-belt asteroid 185638 Erwinschwab in his honour.
[18] Schwab has discovered asteroids at Starkenburg, Tzec Maun[19] as well as at the Taunus Observatory.