After serving briefly as director of the Athens Observatory, John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos (1889-1951) joined the Boyden Observatory staff and was responsible for selecting the site at Mazelspoort, near Bloemfontein. When death ended his superintendency this was one of the finest observatories in the southern hemisphere.
Discovered on 7-8-1966 in Bloemfontein by Boyden Observatory