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description of the auxiliary station
"Sormano2-Bellagio Via Lattea"

Starting from 2017 a new station, named Sormano2 - Bellagio Via Lattea (MPC code L06), joined Sormano Astronomical Observatory MPC code 587 The station is located at Bellagio, about 10 Km north of the Sormano headquarter.

The main instrument (at left) is a 28 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope (f/10) with an Orion Parsec 8300 CCD camera (field of view of 23? x 17?). A secondary instrument (at right), a Newtonian Reflector telescope 20 cm (f/3.8) with a correct FOV 1.2 x 1.0 degrees, is particularly suited for astrophotography of comets.

Astrometric Activity (updated through June 2018)

Number of observations

• Observation of selected Minor Planets:

• (4695) Mediolanum
• (7866) Sicoli
• (10149) Cavagna
• (15460) Manca
• (16749) Vospini
• (79271) Bellagio
• (136199) Eris
• PHA 2018 DH1

• Observation of selected Comets:

  images at comet's main page

• 2P (Encke)
• 41P (Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak)
• 45P (Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova)
• 71P (Clark)
• C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)
• C/2015 V2 (Johnson)
• C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)
• C/2017 E4 (Lovejoy)
• C/2017 O1 (ASASSN)
• C/2017 S3 (PANSTARRS)
• C/2017 T1 (Heinze)
• P/2018 H2 (PANSTARRS)

Geographic coordinates WGS84:
Sormano2 - Bellagio Via Lattea (MPC code L06)
Longitude: 9? 15' 14.50 East
Latitude: 45? 58' 12.36 North
Height: 323 m, a.s.l.

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