The Quantity and Quality of Observational Nights Monitored With Using the Astronomical Instruments at the Suburban Observation Stations of Astronomical Observatory of Odessa National University

Abstract

named after I.I. Mechnikov is one of the four astronomical observatories which exist in classical universities. The Observatory has a main office in the T.G. Shevchenko Park that located near historical center of Odessa. The Observatory also has several observation stations: in the Odessa suburb Mayaki and Kryzhanovka villages.

First reported observation of asteroids 2017 AB8, 2017 QX33, and 2017 RV12

“…All the source material for our work was obtained at the OMT-800 telescope (0.8-m main mirror) during the Solar System object astrometric and photometric compaignes in 2017. The telescope was installed at the suburban observation station Astronomical Observatory of Odesa I. I. Mechnykov National University, in Mayaky village in the Odesa region, with coordinates: latitude +46 • 23 49.1 , longitude +30 • 16 16.6 E, altitude 19 meters; and has code: 583 Odesa-Mayaky, (Kashuba et al, 2015). To obtain images of observed objects, the telescope is equipped with a FLI ML09000 camera, which, together with a field corrector, provides a field of view of 59 × 59 and an image scale of 1.15 arcsec/pixel.…”

Photometric study of the C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) comet plasma tails

“…Observations of C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) comet were carried out on the night 7 th -8 th February, 2015, at the observation station in Mayaki village (Kashuba et al, 2015) (30.27 • E; 46.39 • N; 25 m) using RC-800 telescope (D = 800 mm; F = 2140 mm; Andrievsky et al, 2013). At the time of observation, the geocentric distance to the comet ∆ = 0.902 AU; its distance from the Sun r = 1.297 AU; the phase angle α = 49.4 • ; the ecliptic latitude β of comet was about 20 • .…”