AL Sufi!

Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi was a Persian astronomer also known as 'Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi, 'Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn, 'Abdul Rahman Sufi, or 'Abdurrahman Sufi and, historically, in the West as Azophi and Azophi Arabus. Wikipedia

Born: December 7, 903 AD, Shahr-e-Rey, IranDied: May 25, 986 AD, ShirazBooks: Book of Fixed Stars

Abd al-Rahman Al-Sufi, known in the West as Azophi, was one of the two most outstanding practical astronomers of the Middle Ages. Al-Sufi was the first astronomer to describe the 'nebulosity' of the nebula in Andromeda in his book of constellations (atlas of heavens)Al-Şūfı's Book of the Fixed Stars, dating from around AD 964, is one of the most important medieval Arabic treatises on astronomy. This major work contains an extensive star catalog, which lists star co-ordinates and magnitude estimates, as well as detailed star charts.Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi is a well-known Muslim astronomer, who is also recognized by present-day space agencies. Due to this reason, a crater in the Moon has been named after him, called “Azophi”.

Al-Sufi’s name comes among the nine most famous Muslim astronomers who took lead to explore the sky. His name appears with varying spellings like Abolfazen in Italian, and Azophi in Spanish. He revised most of Ptolemy’s star catalogs, maps and calculations. Discovered more than 100 new stars never before known to humanity. Dr. Ihsan Hafeez did PhD on Al-Sufi. From university of southern Queensland