Kitami Observatory

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]

Kitami Observatory

Organization	Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art
Observatory code	400
Location	Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan
Coordinates	43°49′06″N 143°54′13″E
Established	1987
Website	business4.plala.or.jp/bunsen21/
Location of Kitami Observatory

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

• Kin Endate
• List of observatories
  • List of asteroid-discovering observatories
• Tetsuya Fujii

Notes

1. Longitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')
2. MPC List of Observatory Codes found here, retrieved on March 20, 2007
3. Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory list retrieved on March 20, 2007
4. Minor Planet Discoverers
5. Minor Planet Discovery Sites, Minor Planet Center, November 2, 2012, retrieved 2012-11-18

External links

• Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine official website (in Japanese)