MPC observatory code 106
Longitude: 14o 04' 16" East; Latitude: 45o 56' 45" North; Altitude: 726 m
First Published November 10, 1995
Crni Vrh Observatory is operated by a group of dedicated observers. We run a Comet and Asteroid Search Program named PIKA after a Slovene acronym. For that purpose, we designed and built a 0.6-m, f/3.3 Cichocki telescope (named after B. Cichocki). It is custom made, advanced technology, wide-field imaging system, designed for sky survey applications. Since 2004, it operates as a remote robotic telescope. It nightly scans the sky and returns new discoveries of small Solar System bodies, which sometimes threaten our home planet Earth. Recent software upgrade enable us also discovery of distant cosmic explosions such as supernovae, Gamma Ray Bursts and variable stars. See also our 2 minute video presentation and recent updates of the PIKA project.

2000 and 2010 Shoemaker Grant Recipient

Last Images
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Image of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), obtained on 2025 May 24 (23h26-23h32UT) from Crni Vrh Observatory with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and CMO. Exposure time was 5 minutes (5x60 seconds). Image scale is 1.17 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2025 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

Comet C/2021 G2 (ATLAS)
Unfiltered image of comet C/2021 G2 (ATLAS), obtained on 2025 May 16 (20h21-20h27UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and CMO. Exposure time was 5 minutes (5x60 seconds). Image scale is 1.17 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2025 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
Unfiltered image of Periodic Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, obtained on 2025 May 16 (19h53-20h00UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope and CMO. Exposure time was 5 minutes (5x60 seconds). Comet has a star-like appearance (very condensed), which indicate a fresh outburst. Image scale is 1.17 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2025 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.
Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)
Image of comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN), obtained on 2025 Apr. 27 (19h37-19h43UT) with 15-cm, f/6 Maksutov-Cassegrain camera and Canon EOS 6D. Exposure time was 9x30 seconds at ISO 3200. Comet appears to have disintegrated before perihelion. I somehow managed to capture it through cirrus clouds, when it was only about 5 degrees above the horizon. The image shows only a faint cloud of debris without a core. Image scale is 3.0 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2025 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

Comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN)
Image of comet C/2025 F2 (SWAN), obtained from Tosko celo (580m) near Ljubljana on 2025 Apr. 9 (3h17-3h20UT) with 20-cm, f/5 reflector and Canon EOS 6D . Exposure time was 10x15 seconds at ISO 800. A faint tail ~0.5 deg. long is visible in PA ~310 deg. Image scale is 2.2 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2025 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

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