Peter N. Fedorov

Peter N. Fedorov (born 1951) is a Ukrainian astronomer, specialist in astrometry and Galactic dynamics, known for his work on compiling the XPM star catalogue and determining the inertial coordinate system in the Milky Way.

P. Fedorov prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for the series of works "Catalogues of stellar data as tools for astronomical research".

Under his command, the Struve-Ertel meridian instrument was installed, which was used for daytime observations of the Sun, Venus, and Mercury in 1981-1991.

[2] In 2012, he defended his doctoral thesis "XPM catalogue as an independent realization of the extragalactic reference frame in the optical and near-infrared wavebands".

The prize is named after his namesake, astrometrist Yevgen Pavlovych Fedorov from Kyiv.