Kitami Observatory
| Organization | Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art |
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| Code | 400 |
| Location | Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan |
| Coordinates | 43°49′06″N 143°54′13″E / 43.8182°N 143.9037°ECoordinates: 43°49′06″N 143°54′13″E / 43.8182°N 143.9037°E |
| Website | business4 |
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Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory code is 400. 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.
The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuo Watanabe discovered a large number of asteroids here. As of 2012[update], 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.
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