Kitami Observatory
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| Organization | Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art |
| Observatory code | 400 |
| Location | Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan |
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Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory code[1] is 400.[2] It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.[3]
The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here.[4] As of 2012[update], 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.[5]
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Longitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')
- ^ MPC List of Observatory Codes found here, retrieved on March 20, 2007
- ^ Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory list retrieved on March 20, 2007
- ^ Minor Planet Discoverers
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine official website (in Japanese)
