The Finnish astronomer Hugo Gylden

The Finnish astronomer Hugo Gylden

R. Brown

Trans-Tasman Occultation Alliance

Gylden pioneered the foundations of present-day orbital mechanics, helping pave the way for the high-accuracy asteroid predictions that occultation observers benefit from.  He also has an asteroid named for him - (806) Gyldenia - which I had the good fortune to observe occulting two stars within an hour of each other. I will present the story of these observations also