星明天文台

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About Xingming

       The Xingming Observatory is located in Xiaofengliang, Gangou Township, in the southern suburbs of Urumqi, Xinjiang. It has four observation points: the No. 1 observation room (Xingming Observatory, geographical coordinates: longitude 87°10’39.6″, latitude 43°28’15.0″, altitude 2080 meters, international observation site number: C42), the No. 2 observation room (Xingming Observatory #2, geographical coordinates: longitude 87°10’44.6″, latitude 43°28’14.9″, altitude 2066 meters, international observation site number: N89), the NEXT dome (Xingming Observatory #3, geographical coordinates: longitude 87°10’23.5″, latitude 43°28’18.2″, altitude 2098 meters, international observation site number: N88), and the KATS observation room (Xingming Observatory-KATS, geographical coordinates: longitude 87°10’42.7″, latitude 43°28’25.7″, altitude 2068 meters, international observation site number: N86).
       The Xingming Observatory was initially built in 2007 and currently has multiple remotely controlled unattended observation equipment. Since its establishment, in cooperation with domestic enthusiasts, it has discovered many new stars, comets, asteroids, supernovae and other celestial bodies. The name Xingming Observatory mainly has two meanings. First of all, of course, it is to commemorate Mr. Zhou Xingming, an amateur astronomy pioneer in Xinjiang Bole. His deeds and spirit have always inspired us to come this far; furthermore, taking its homonym – “Xingming” is to hope that there will be good weather every observation day, and also to wish all stargazers a brilliant starry sky to watch, whether it is real or in the heart or in the dream. The basic guiding ideology of the operation of the Xingming Observatory is sharing and cooperation, sharing the excellent sky in Xinjiang, sharing the observation data every night, and cooperating with enthusiasts to search for new stars, supernovae, asteroids, comets and other celestial bodies, and conduct photometry and special celestial phenomena observations.
      The Xingming Sky Survey Project (XOSS) is the overall amateur sky survey project hosted by the Xingming Observatory. At present, there are the Public Supernova Search Project (PSP), the Half Meter Telescope (HMT), the Comet Search Program (CSP), the Photometric Auxiliary Telescope (PAT), the Enormous Areal Survey Telescope (EAST), the Kilodegree Automatic Transient Survey (KATS), the Variable Star Search Program (VSSP), the Exoplanet Search Project (XESP), and the Asteroid Search Project (NOWT Asteroid Survey, NAS) in cooperation with the Xinjiang Observatory. At the same time, it is also responsible for operating the Ningbo Bureau of Education And Xinjiang Observatory Telescope (NEXT).