Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, Private astronomical observatory in Gal'chin, Ukraine.
Andrushivka Observatory is a private research facility with a large Zeiss reflector telescope made by Carl Zeiss Jena. The telescope was specially built to study celestial objects and track asteroids moving through space.
The observatory opened in 2001 and was designed from the start to discover and observe asteroids. Over the years it grew into a place that makes important contributions to international asteroid research.
The observatory's poetic name, "July Morning," echoes a song by the British band Uriah Heep. Its team of two to five staff observers publishes astrometric measurements of near-Earth asteroids to the Minor Planet Center in Harvard; by June 2010 it had logged 2,323 such measurements. The private facility is an associative member of the Ukrainian Astronomical Association.
The observatory stands in the village of Gal'chin, about 3 km southwest of Andrushivka in Zhytomyr Oblast. It is a private facility, so visits are not automatic; arrange access with the observatory in advance. The site is reached by road from Andrushivka, and the rural setting keeps light pollution low for nighttime work.
Asteroid 274301 Wikipedia, discovered here on 25 August 2008, was named after the online encyclopedia in January 2013. The same night of 18–19 September 2003, observers watching a trans-Neptunian object caught a stream of asteroids; two of the seven unknown ones were credited to Andrushivka.
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