Akira Fujii
was a Japanese astrophotographer and astronomer. PBS has described him as "the world's foremost wide-angle astrophotographer".Fujii graduated from Tama Art University in 1961, and began working at observatories, producing a substantial bibliography of general-audience astronomy books. In 1974, Fujii began Japan's first star party, the "Invitation to Starlit Skies", which he hosted on Mount Azuma until 1984.
Fujii's work is marketed by David Malin; he collaborated with Serge Brunier in the production of 2001's ''Great Atlas of the Stars''.
The main-belt asteroid 3872 Akirafujii is named in his honor.
Fujii died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 81. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Akira Fujii, Seiji Azuma, Yoshiki Yoshida, Yoshinobu Tsujimoto, Hironori Horiguchi, Satoshi WatanabeGet full text
Published 2004-01-01
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2by Hiroko Matsumoto, Reiri Takeuchi, Makiko Ono, Yoshiaki Akimoto, Naomi Kobayashi, Akira FujiiGet full text
Published 2010-02-01
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4by Reiri Takeuchi, Hiroko Matsumoto, Hidehiko Okada, Mami Hori, Akihiko Gunji, Kosuke Hakozaki, Yoshiaki Akimoto, Akira FujiiGet full text
Published 2007-01-01
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5by Ichiro Kawahata, Huinan Xu, Michiyo Takahashi, Kiyoshi Murata, Wanying Han, Yoshihisa Yamaguchi, Akira Fujii, Kikuji Yamaguchi, Tohru YamakuniGet full text
Published 2018-12-01
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6by Hiroshi Kawakami, Katsuji Inoue, Takayuki Nagai, Akira Fujii, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Yukari Shikano, Namiko Sakuoka, Maki Miyazaki, Yasunori Takasuka, Shuntaro Ikeda, Osamu YamaguchiGet full text
Published 2021-10-01
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7by Masaki Kinoshita, Katsuji Inoue, Haruhiko Higashi, Yusuke Akazawa, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Akira Fujii, Teruyoshi Uetani, Shinji Inaba, Jun Aono, Takayuki Nagai, Kazuhisa Nishimura, Shuntaro Ikeda, Osamu YamaguchiGet full text
Published 2020-12-01
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8by Hiroshi Kawakami, MD, Takayuki Nagai, MD, PhD, Akira Fujii, MD, Teruyoshi Uetani, MD, PhD, Kazuhisa Nishimura, MD, PhD, Katsuji Inoue, MD, PhD, Jun Suzuki, MD, PhD, Kazuhiro Satomi, MD, PhD, Takafumi Okura, MD, PhD, Jitsuo Higaki, MD, PhD, Akiyoshi Ogimoto, MD, PhDGet full text
Published 2015-12-01
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