Leslie Copus Peltier (January 2, 1900 – May 10, 1980) was an American astronomer.
He was born in Delphos, Ohio. An amateur astronomer, he was a prolific discoverer of comets and also a persistent observer of variable stars and member of the AAVSO. Harlow Shapley once described him as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer".
He wrote the heart-warming autobiographical Starlight Nights (ISBN 0-933346-94-8), which evokes the magic of stargazing in simpler days, on a farm and without light pollution.
Asteroid 3850 Peltier is named in his honor, as is the Leslie C. Peltier Award of the Astronomical League.
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