Otto Heckmann

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Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.

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Otto Heckmann: Media

German astronomer

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Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.

Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope...

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