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| Named after | Simeiz  |
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| Observatory code | 094 |
| Location | Yalta Municipality,Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine |
| Coordinates | 44°25′05″N33°59′51″E / 44.418038888889°N 33.9974°E /44.418038888889; 33.9974 |
| Altitude | 360 m (1,180 ft) |
| Established | 1908 |
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Simeiz Observatory (also spelledSimeis orSimeïs) was anastronomy researchobservatory until the mid-1950s. It is located onMount Koshka,Crimea, by the town ofSimeiz.
Part of theCrimean Astrophysical Observatory, it is currently used forlaser based studies of the orbits ofsatellites.
TheMinor Planet Center (MPC) credits Simeiz Observatory as the location where a total of 150minor planets were discovered by astronomersGrigory Neujmin,Sergey Belyavsky,Vladimir Albitsky,Grigory Shajn,Nikolaj Ivanov,Pelageya Shajn,Praskov'ja Parchomenko,Alexander Deutsch andEvgenij Skvorcov.
As of 2017, the discovery of the minor planet369010 Ira is directly credited to Simeiz Observatory by the MPC.[1]
The Simeiz Observatory was founded by Russian amateur astronomerNikolai Maltsov, who later became a honored member of theRussian Academy of Sciences and after whom asteroid749 Malzovia was named. In 1900, he built a tower for refractor at his land plot nearSimeiz. In 1906 – a tower with dome for Zeiss doubleastrograph. Both towers are preserved and being used nowadays. In 1908, Maltsov handed his observatory toPulkovo Observatory as a present. In 1912, the first astrophysical department of Pulkovo Observatory was officially opened at the south of Russia. Simeiz observatory is situated at the level of 360 m above sea level at southern mountainside of the Crimean mountains, atKoshka mountain. A main building was restored after the Second World War on the basis of old building in modernized style with balconies decorated by columns.
Research of interstellar space and star formation zones, discovery of star rotation, creation of stellar catalogues of radial velocities, study of chemical composition of stars and the Sun brought the world publicity to Simeiz Observatory. The results of research of stars and the Sun represents an independent value.
The department provides observing facilities for astronomers of international community and for its own staff. The following projects currently run:
Minor planets, whose discovery is directly credited to the observatory.[1]
| 369010 Ira | 18 July 2007 | list |
In the 1950s the observatory issued several lists[2] of galactic emission nebulas, published by G. A. Shajn and V. F. Gaze (also transliterated Hase) in the Ukrainian "Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory" (Izvestiya Krymskoi Astrofizicheskoi Observatorii) and known collectively as the Simeis catalogue.[3] The catalogue includes Simeis 57 (the Propeller Nebula inCygnus)[4] andSimeis 147 (the Spaghetti Nebula inAuriga).