title: Kiyotaka Kanai
text: # Kiyotaka Kanai
  
  Minor planets discovered: 1 :
  
  | 7752 Otauchunokai | 31 October 1988 | MPC |
  | - | - | - |
  | co-discovery with Tsuneo Niijima |||
  
  Kiyotaka Kanai (金井 清高, Kanai Kiyotaka, born 1951) is a Japanese amateur astronomer, observer of variable stars, discoverer of comet C/1970 B1, and co-discoverer of the main-belt asteroid 7752 Otauchunokai, named after the Ota Uchuno Kai group, an amateur astronomers' club at Ōta city, of which he is a member of.
  
  The inner main-belt asteroid 26168 Kanaikiyotaka was named after him on 21 September 2002 (M.P.C. 46684).
  
  