The Observatory of Turin ( it, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, links=no, also known as Pino Torinese;
obs. code:
022) is an
astronomical observatory
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owned and operated by Italy's
National Institute for Astrophysics
The National Institute for Astrophysics ( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, or INAF) is an Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics, founded in 1999. INAF funds and operates twenty separate research facilities, which in turn e ...
( it, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF). It is located on the top of a hill in the town of
Pino Torinese near
Turin, in the north Italian
Piedmont region. The observatory was founded in 1759. At Pino Torinese, several asteroid discoveries were made by Italian astronomer
Luigi Volta
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in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The asteroid
2694 Pino Torinese
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was named after the observatory's location.
Asteroids discovered at Pino Torinese
See also
*
List of astronomical observatories
References
External links
Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino
Torino
1759 establishments in Italy
Pino Torinese
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