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 Brorfelde Observatory with the building housing theSchmidt telescope at right | |
| Named after | Brorfelde  |
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| Observatory code | 054 |
| Location | Holbæk Municipality,Region Zealand, Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°37′29″N11°39′53″E / 55.624661°N 11.664739°E /55.624661; 11.664739 |
| Altitude | 60 m (200 ft) |
| Established | 1953 |
| Website | observatoriet |
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Brorfelde Observatory (Danish:Brorfelde Observatoriet;observatory code054) is anastronomicalobservatory located in Brorfelde nearHolbæk,Denmark. It is home to the Brorfelde Schmidt Telescope and was run as a branch of theCopenhagen University Observatory until 1996. It still has telescopes that are used byUniversity of Copenhagen students, but the operating staff moved to theRockefeller Complex inCopenhagen.[1]
Brorfelde Observatory and Brorfelde was a part of a Danish advent calendar running in 2012, and 2019 onDR1 - a Danish national TV channel.[citation needed]
The 77-centimetreSchmidt telescope from 1966 at Brorfelde Observatory was originally equipped with photographic film.[citation needed] An engineer is here showing the film-box, which was then placed behind the locker at the center of the telescope (at the telescope's prime focus).
The Hungaria asteroid3309 Brorfelde was discovered and named after the observatory, marking its inaugural minor planet discovery.[1] The naming citation was published by theMinor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 (M.P.C. 12210).[2]
| Minor planets discovered: more than 100 | |
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| 3033 Holbaek | March 5, 1984 |
| 3309 Brorfelde | January 28, 1982 |
| 3312 Pedersen | September 24, 1984 |
| 3369 Freuchen | October 18, 1985 |
| 5165 Videnom | February 11, 1985 |
| 5427 Jensmartin | May 13, 1986 |
| (7743) 1986 JA | May 2, 1986 |
| 8261 Ceciliejulie | September 11, 1985 |
| 9555 Frejakocha | April 2, 1986 |
| (8338) 1985 FE3 | March 27, 1985 |
| (22282) 1985 RA | September 11, 1985 |
| (24642) 1984 SA | September 22, 1984 |
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