The International Scientific Optical Network or ISON (russian: Международная научная оптическая сеть, Пулковская кооперация оптических наблюдателей) is an international project, currently consisting of about 30 telescopes at about 20 observatories in about ten countries (Russia, Ukraine (

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), Georgia (

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), Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, Spain (

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), Switzerland (

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), Bolivia (Tarija), USA (

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), Italy (Collepardo)) which have organized to detect, monitor and track objects in space. Other observatories include the "ISON-Kislovodsk Observatory", located near

Kislovodsk Kislovodsk (russian: Кислово́дск, lit. ''sour waters''; ; krc, Ачысуу) is a spa town, spa types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Stavropol Krai, Russia, in the North Caucasus region of Russia which is located between th ...

, North Caucasus, Russia, with the observatory code D00. ISON is managed by the

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics The Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (russian: Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша) is a research institute specializing in computational mathematics. It was established to solve computat ...

, part of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. It was credited for the discovery of comets C/2010 X1 (Elenin) and C/2012 S1 (ISON), the latter popularly known as Comet ISON. The

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365756 ISON is named for the network.

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* (in Russian) * (in English) {{Portal bar, Astronomy, Stars, Spaceflight, Outer space, Solar System, Education, Science Astronomy organizations Minor-planet discovering observatories Organizations established in 2004 Russian Academy of Sciences

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