Welcome to the Bassano Bresciano remoted Astronomical Observatory
The Observatory Bassano Bresciano is self-financed and self-built a private observatory located in the homonymous town of Bassano Bresciano,
in the province of Brescia, at an altitude of 58m above sea level. The observatory is catalogued with the code 565 at the
Minor Planet Center
and the code 22 at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in St. Petersburg, is also included in the list of observers protected from light
pollution by the law of the Lombardy region n. 17/2000.
Activities stated in the 1983, when they were published astrometry measurements on the Minor Planet Circulars, obtained using a small
reflector telescope with a diameter of 15 cm. The current observatory was launched April 29, 1989, the main instrument is a Schmidt telescope
with a mirror diameter of 42 cm corrector plate of 32 cm diameter and focal length is 1000 mm. The telescope is on an equatorial fork mount.
The instrument is housed on the first floor of a purpose-built under a dome with a diameter of 5 meters.
Since commissioning, the telescope is equipped with computerized pointing. Over the years changes and improvements was made in both the mechanical
and the electronics. Today the observatory is fully automated and remoted. It can work in automatic through the night without operators presence
and be remote-controlled. For a long period the main research interest has been the astrometry of minor planets and comets, this activity led
to the discovery of four new planets definitively catalogued. In recent years the observatory has diversified its activities: it does photometry
of asteroids and variable stars, is part of the Italian Supernovae Search Project (ISSP),
the Italian program to search for supernovae, and is part of Gamma-ray Coordinates Network
the telescopes network that receives event notifications GRB by satellites can detect the gamma ray burst.
In the research of GRB in 2012 was able to photograph an event that occurred at a distance of 10 billion light years.
News
| 9 May 2016
Mercury planet will transit on sun disk. Mercury will be between Sun and Earth exactly in the line. Last time it was possible see this event was in the 2003
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29 Jannuary 2016 We have participated, with French and Belgian astronomers amateur, to an astrophysics research for new Exoplanet discovering. It is a planet rotating around a young double star in the bull constellation. An academic paper was sent to the prestigious magazine Astrophysical Jurnal It can be read at this address.
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 September 2014 |
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Collaboration
Italian supernovae
Osservatorio Organ Mesa
Osservatorio Cima Rest
search program
New Mexico
Magasa
Link
Current situation
Stelle senza nome
I nomi delle stelle sono belli:
Sirio, Andromeda, l'Orsa, i due Gemelli.
Chi mai potrebbe dirli tutti in fila?
Son più di cento volte centomila.
E in fondo al cielo, non so dove e come,
c'è un milione di stelle senza nome:
stelle comuni, nessuno le cura,
ma per loro la notte è meno scura.
Gianni Rodari da "Filastrocche in cielo ed in terra"