Patrick Hall (b. 1968) is a Canadian-American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for recognizing and studying the wide variety of unusual broad-absorption-line quasars found by the SDSS.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79106

Named in honor of John Munger, Veikko Kanto and Richard Berry, the authors of The CCD Cookbook. By providing detailed instructions and software, they have made it possible for the amateur astronomer to construct and operate an efficient, low-cost CCD camera. The final imaging and astrometry of this minor planet was carried out with such a camera made by the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 32348

Named in honor of Richard Berry, since 1979 editor-in-chief of ’Astronomy’. He has actively promoted amateur astronomy by means of books on beginning astronomy and telescope making as well as editorship of the technical journal ’Telescope Making’. He was also a pioneer in increasing awareness of light pollution by mapping its extent in southern Ontario in the 1970s. Citation prepared by D. H. Levy and S. J. Edberg at the request of the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 16246