Paul Boltwood (1943– ) is a Canadian specialist in computer systems and outstanding amateur astronomer. He monitored the peculiar object OJ 287 for some two years. He also obtained deep-sky CCD images with limiting magnitude 24.5 using a home-built 0.4-m reflector. (M 41384) _ _.
Discovered on 5-9-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.