The V. P. Engel'gardt Astronomical Observatory (), also known simply as the Engelhardt Observatory, is located 20 kilometers west of
Kazan, Russia. Its observatory code is
136 136 may refer to:
*136 (number)
*AD 136
*136 BC 136 may refer to:
*136 (number)
*AD 136
Year 136 ( CXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 136th Year of the Common Era (C ...
. The co-ordinates are about .
Zelenchukskaya Station
The observatory's Zelenchukskaya Station, observatory code
114 114 may refer to:
*114 (number)
*AD 114
*114 BC
*114 (1st London) Army Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, an English military unit
*114 (Antrim Artillery) Field Squadron, Royal Engineers, a Northern Irish military unit
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, abbreviated as "Zelenchukskaya Stn" by the
IAU/
MPC MPC, Mpc or mpc may refer to:
Astronomy
* Megaparsec (Mpc), unit of length used in astronomy
* Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
** ''Minor Planet Circulars'' (MPC, M.P.C. or MPCs), astronomical publication from the Minor ...
, is located at altitude near
Zelenchukskaya in the
North Caucasus region of the Caucasus Mountains, using a 0.3-meter f/7.7 reflector.
The Station is known for it numerous
cometary observations ''(see external links)'' and discoveries of
minor planets by Russian amateur astronomer
Timur Valer'evič Krjačko
This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 numb ...
. In addition, the MPC directly credits the Zelenchukskaya Station for the discovery of 6 minor planets in 2008 ''(see list)'',
which includes
212929 Satovski, a main-belt asteroid named after Boris Ivanovich Satovski (1908–1982), a laureate of the
USSR State Prize.
Note, the
Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science () with its
Large Altazimuth Telescope
The BTA-6 (russian: Большой Телескоп Альт-азимутальный, translit=Bolshoi Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, translation=Large Altazimuth Telescope) is a aperture optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory lo ...
is also located near Zelenchukskaya.
List of discovered minor planets
See also
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List of asteroid-discovering observatories
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List of observatory codes
References
External links
Comet Observations (114 Engelhardt Observatory, Zelenchukskaya Station) database search at SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
Astronomical observatories in Russia
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Minor-planet discovering observatories
Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Tatarstan
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