Giuseppe Bianchi (1791-1866) founded the astronomical observatory at Modena in 1827 and served as its director until 1859. Observing with the Reichenbach meridian circle he made a catalogue of 220 fundamental stars as a revision of Piazzi's work. This allowed him to discover the variability of some of the proper motions.
Discovered on 1-10-1997 in Bologna by Osservatorio San Vittore