Terry Lovejoy (born 20 November 1966) is an information technologist from Thornlands, Queensland, Australia, most widely known as an amateur astronomer.
Lovejoy is known among amateur astronomers for identifying modifications to digital cameras needed for astrophotography.
After he published procedures to modify those filters,[2] many amateur astronomers were able to improve their deep space photography.
[4] Two months later, he discovered another comet, designated C/2007 K5 (Lovejoy) using the modified camera.
On 27 November 2011, with his discovery of C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy),[1] he became the first astronomer in over 40 years to discover a Kreutz Sungrazing comet from a ground-based observation.