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The Optics Institute
of Southern California
The project compiled precise positioning of over 200,000
southern stars to 11th mag in
over 6,000 astroplates. Special neutral density Bright Star catalog studies to 6th mag. were conducted. The observatory’s work on astrometry of equatorial stars
to 12th mag is 63% complete. In
1987, 113 Astrometric observations of Halley’s comet were conducted; as well as 10 astrometric
observations of SN 1987A in the
LMC.
The Southern Skies Star Party in 2003
is sponsoring the Bolivian National Observatory at Tarija
is sponsoring the Bolivian National Observatory at Tarija
Problem: March 1990, brought the end of Russian cooperation and funding. The observatory has meager economic support from the Bolivian Government and University of San Misael Sarancho, and lost significant instrumentation at program’s end and negligible funding to hire observatory staff.