Kitami Observatory

Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory code^[1] is 400.^[2] It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.^[3]

Kitami Observatory

Organization	Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art
Observatory code	400
Location	Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan
Coordinates	43°49′06″N 143°54′13″E
Established	1987
Website	business4.plala.or.jp/bunsen21/
Location of Kitami Observatory

The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here.^[4] As of 2012^[update], 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.^[5]

See also

• Kin Endate
• List of observatories
  • List of asteroid-discovering observatories
• Tetsuya Fujii