British amateur astronomer Tom Boles (b. 1944) operates his robotic telescopes from Coddenham, Suffolk, every clear night. His 116 supernovae represent a record for an observer in the U.K. President of the British Astronomical Association during 2003--2005, he discovered (84417) Ritabo in 2002.
Discovered on 8-10-1989 in Kani by Mizuno, Y., Furuta, T.