- Črni Vrh Observatory
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Minor planets discovered: 171 9674 Slovenija August 23, 1998 15071 Hallerstein January 24, 1999 (18154) 2000 PA August 1, 2000 (19612) 1999 OO July 17, 1999 (22108) 2000 PD August 1, 2000 (32083) 2000 KO May 24, 2000 (34078) 2000 PF August 1, 2000 (48020) 2001 DC February 16, 2001 66667 Kambič October 8, 1999 (72445) 2001 DD February 16, 2001 (77050) 2001 DB February 16, 2001 (107290) 2001 CA February 1, 2001 Slovenia, close to the settlement Črni Vrh, near the town of Idrija. The current observatory was built in 1985, and is at an altitude of 730 metres. Much of the construction was done by volunteers. Regular astronomical observations started in 1975, at a small observatory that was equipped with home-made instruments was set up near the present site. At that time first images of Comet West were taken. The site is well above the inversion border much of winter, which enables undisturbed observations on many successive clear nights.
The observatory runs a Comet and Asteroid Search Program named PIKA after a Slovene acronym. Since March 2003, the program is being operated on a new 60-cm, f/3.3 Cichocki telescope equipped with a Finger Lake 1k x 1k CCD detector. Telescope project funding has been covered in part by the Planetary Society Shoemaker Grant 2000. Members of the Department of Physics, Astronomical Observatory, of the University of Ljubljana, also use the site for observations.
On 18 August 2008, the amateur astronomer Stanislav Matičič discovered the comet C/2008 Q1 (Matičič), the first comet discovered in this observatory and in Slovenia. On 16 April 2010, the student Jan Vales discovered the periodic comet designated P/2010 H2 (Vales) in a strong outburst. The Catalina Sky Survey researchers scanned the same region of the sky only 15 hours earlier and missed it. [1][2]
Contents
Telescopes
- 19-cm Automatic Comet Imaging Telescope
- 36-cm AIT Imaging System
- 60-cm Cichocki Sky Survey Telescope
- All-Sky Camera
Observing team
Discoveries
Selected asteroids
Name Provisional
designationDate of discovery Discoverer Origin of name Date of designation
MPC circular9674 Slovenija 1998 QU15 August 23, 1998 Slovenija February 2, 1999
3379614966 Jurijvega 1997 OU2 July 30, 1997 Herman Mikuž Jurij Vega May 9, 2001
4267415071 Hallerstein 1999 BN12 January 24, 1999 Ferdinand Avguštin Hallerstein August 6, 2003
4928019618 Maša 1997 PN3 August 11, 1999 Jure Skvarč July 5, 2001
4304718845 Cichocki 1999 RY27 September 7, 1999 Herman Mikuž Bruno Chichocki September 18, 2005
5482766667 Kambič 1999 TZ11 October 8, 1999 Bojan Kambič September 18, 2005
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External links
Coordinates: 45°56′48″N 14°04′25″E / 45.94667°N 14.07361°E
Categories:- Science and technology in Slovenia
- Astronomical observatories in Slovenia
- Asteroid discoverers (observatories)
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