Crni Vrh Observatory

MPC observatory code 106
Longitude: 14^o 04' 16" East; Latitude: 45^o 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. Telescope project funding has been covered in part by the Planetary Society Shoemaker Grant 2000. See also our 2 minute video presentation and recent updates of the PIKA project.

Last Images

	Nova Sagittarii 2008 Discovered on Apr. 18.784 UT by K. Nishiyama (Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan) and F. Kabashima (Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan) using a 105-mm f/5.6 camera lens. The nova was at magnitude 8.4 at the following precise position: R.A.= 18h05m58s.88, Decl. = -27o13'56".0 (equinox 2000.0). This false color unfiltered image of nova (in field center) was obtained on 2008 Apr. 20.116UT with 19-cm, f/4 flat filed S-C camera and CCD. Image scale is 2.44 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2008 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

	Periodic Comet 46P/Wirtanen False color image of periodic comet 46P/Wirtanen, obtained on 2008 Mar. 11 (20h35-20h41UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, R filter and CCD. Image is a composition of 3x60 sec co-addedd exposures. Image scale is 2.49 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2008 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

	Comet C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao) False color image of comet C/2008 C1 (Chen-Gao), obtained on 2008 Mar. 11 (20h43-20h49UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, V filter and CCD. Image is a composition of 3x60 sec co-addedd exposures. Image scale is 2.49 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2008 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

	Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) False color image of comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini), obtained on 2008 March 14 (1h18-1h27UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, V filter and CCD. Image is a composition of 3x90 sec co-addedd exposures. Image scale is 2.49 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2008 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

	Comet C/2007 B2 (Skiff) False color image of comet C/2007 B2 (Skiff), obtained on 2008 March 14 (1h00-1h13UT) with 60-cm, f/3.3 Deltagraph telescope, V filter and CCD. Image is a composition of 4x90 sec co-addedd exposures. Image scale is 2.49 arc sec/pixel. Copyright © 2008 by H. Mikuz, Crni Vrh Observatory.

Astronomy Picture of the Day	Light Pollution in Slovenia	DSLR and Webcam Imaging

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Observer's Support

Comets

	Recent Comet Discoveries
	Ephemeris of Observable Comets
	HORIZONS Ephemeris Generator
	Comet Brightness Estimates - (ICQ)
	Submit Observation in ICQ Format
	Comet Observation Report
	CARA Comet Data Archive

Observatories/Observing Programs

	Astronomy Astrophysics at Univ. of Ljubljana
	Astronomical Observatory Golovec
	Rezman Observatory
	MBK Team
	Teja Fabjan
	Venus Transit 2004

Asteroids

	IAU-Minor Planet Center
	Sky Coverage
	The NEO Confirmation Page
	NEO Rating Page
	NeoDys Site
	MPC Ephemeris Service
	New Object Ephemeris
	MPChecker
	MPC Animations Page
	Asteroid/Comet Connection
	Impact Effects Calculator

	Sun and Moon Data 2008 (for Ljubljana)

Supernovae

	CBAT Unconfirmed Observations Page
	List of Recent Supernovae

Libraries

Univ. of Ljubljana, Astronomical Library

News

	NEO Asteroid 2007 TU24 Flyby (January 29, 2008)


	On January 29, 2008, NEO asteroid 2007 TU24 passed the Earth at a distance of 0.0046 a. u. (690.000 kilometers), which is less than twice the Earth-Moon distance. More ...

	Discovery of Supernova 2007od at Črni Vrh Observatory (Nov. 2, 2007)


	On images taken by S. Maticic in the course of the Črni Vrh Asteroid and Comet Search program PIKA around Nov. 2.850 UT, an apparent supernova of mag 14.4) was detected. More ...

	UPDATED Photometric Detection of a XO-2b Exoplanet Transit at Kobdilj Observatory (Feb. 14-15, 2008)


	We report a photometric observation of a XO-2b exoplanet transit in constellation Lynx. More ...

Crni Vrh Observatory Online

Last Night Sky Image

Webcam

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Webcam

Fireball from All-Sky Camera

Recorded 2008 Apr. 5, (19:58:49UT)
2008 Events Archive

Bright Comets Collection

C/1995 01 (Hale-Bopp)

C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)