ÄŒrni Vrh Observatory

The Crni Vrh Observatory, Slovenian Crni Vrh Observatorij is an observatory south of the town of Idrija in the Goriška region in western Slovenia. Its geographical location is 14 ° 4 ' 25 "East and 45 ° 56 ' 48 " North, 726 m. i J.. It is registered under the IAU code 106.

The current observatory was built in 1985, with much of the work was undertaken by volunteers. Its origin took the observatory in 1975, when a group of enthusiasts took a small observatory with homemade instruments in operation. At that time there also first images of comet C/1975 V1 -A ( West) were added. Since then, several comets and asteroids 294 were discovered in Crni Vrh.