Vidojevica

Vidojevica
Vidojevica
Location in Serbia
Highest point
Elevation 1,155 m (3,789 ft) [1]
Coordinates 43°08′29″N 21°33′21″E / 43.14139°N 21.55583°E / 43.14139; 21.55583Coordinates: 43°08′29″N 21°33′21″E / 43.14139°N 21.55583°E / 43.14139; 21.55583 
Geography
Location Southern Serbia

Vidojevica[1] (Serbian Cyrillic: Видојевица) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Prokuplje. Its highest peak Bandera has an elevation of 1,155 meters above sea level.

Astronomical station

On the top of the mountain, there is a new Astronomical Station of the Belgrade Observatory,[2] on the location at an altitude of 1,150 meters and with minimal light pollution.[3]

The 60-cm Cassegrain telescope was installed in spring of 2011.[4] The new telescope is 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 1.4m fully robotic telescope was installed at the station.[5][6] It has been named “Milanković”, after Milutin Milanković, a geophysicist, civil engineer and astronomer who was the director of the Observatory from 1948 to 1951.[7] Telescope “Milankovic” will be part of the World-wide Network of Robotic Telescopes. Further infrastructure and expansion of the pavillions is planned for 2017 with the support from the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Jovan Đokić. "Katalog planina Srbije". PSD Kopaonik Beograd.
  2. ↑ "Seli se glavno oko Srbije" (in Serbian). Večernje Novosti. 2010-06-12.
  3. 1 2 "Nebeske oči Zvezdare gledaju sa Vidovice" (in Serbian). Politika. 2017-04-07.
  4. ↑ Future Robotic observatory on Mountain Vidojevica:site and equipment specification
  5. ↑ “Future science with metre-class telescopes” Dr. Milan Bogosavljević
  6. ↑ http://firstlight.aob.rs/rationale.html "First light of the Milanković telescope"
  7. ↑ Future Robotic observatory on Mountain Vidojevica:site and equipment specification
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