Vidojevica
Vidojevica (Serbian: Видојевица) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Prokuplje. Its highest peak, Bandera, has an elevation of 1,155 m (3,789 ft) above sea level.
Astronomical station
On the top of the mountain, there is an astronomical observatory operated by the Belgrade Observatory. The facility is at an altitude of 1,150 m (3,770 ft) and has minimal light pollution.
A 60 cm (24 in) Cassegrain telescope was installed in spring of 2011. It was named "Nedeljković", after Milan Nedeljković (1857–1950), the first director and founder of Belgrade Observatory in 1887. In the next phase, in spring 2016, a 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) fully robotic telescope was installed at the station. It has been named "Milanković", after geophysicist, civil engineer and astronomer Milutin Milanković, who was the director of the Observatory from 1948 to 1951.
References
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- ^ "Seli se glavno oko Srbije" (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti. 2010-06-12.
- ^ "Nebeske oči Zvezdare gledaju sa Vidojevice" (in Serbian). Politika. 2017-04-07.
- ^ Future Robotic observatory on Mountain Vidojevica:site and equipment specification
- ^ Bogosavljević, Milan. "Future science with metre-class telescopes" (PDF).
- ^ "First light of the Milanković telescope".