Chuhuiv Observational Station (or Chuguev Observational Station) of the
Institute of Astronomy of
Kharkiv National University is an
astronomical observatory
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founded in the early 1960s near the village of Ivanovka,
Chuhuiv Raion
Chuhuiv Raion () is a ''raion'' (district) in Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Chuhuiv. The population in 2021 was
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Khar ...
,
Kharkiv Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast ( uk, Харківська́ о́бласть, translit=Kharkivska oblast), also referred to as Kharkivshchyna ( uk, Ха́рківщина), is an oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine. The oblast borders Russia to the north, Luhans ...
,
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
. The founder of the observatory was
Nikolai P. Barabashov. The main instrument of the observatory is 70-cm
reflector
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Science
* Reflector, a device that causes reflection (for example, a mirror or a retroreflector)
* Reflector (photography), used to control lighting contrast
* Reflecting telescope
* Reflector (antenna), the part of an ant ...
AZT-8. The observational station hosted one of the first coherent optics processors used to reduce astronomical observations. The main topics of the observations conducted on the observational station are photometric observations of
asteroids
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...
and monitoring of
space debris
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. In particular, the observations conducted here significantly contributed to the introduction of H-G1-G2 asteroid magnitude system
and to the discovery of the
YORP effect for several asteroids
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Astronomical observatories in Ukraine
National University of Kharkiv
Buildings and structures in Kharkiv Oblast
Chuhuiv
Kharkiv Observatory
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