Vidojevica Explained

Vidojevica
Elevation M:	1155
Elevation Ref:	^[1]
Map:	Serbia
Map Size:	250
Location:	Southern Serbia
Coordinates:	43.1414°N 21.5558°W

Vidojevica^[1] (Serbian: Видојевица) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the town of Prokuplje. Its highest peak, Bandera, has an elevation of 1155m (3,789feet) above sea level.

Astronomical station

On the top of the mountain, there is an astronomical observatory operated by the Belgrade Observatory.^[2] The facility is at an altitude of 1150m (3,770feet) and has minimal light pollution.^[3]

A 60cm (20inches) Cassegrain telescope was installed in spring of 2011.^[4] 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 1.4m (04.6feet) fully robotic telescope was installed at the station.^{[5] [6]} It has been named "Milanković", after geophysicist, civil engineer and astronomer Milutin Milanković, who was the director of the Observatory from 1948 to 1951.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Katalog planina Srbije. PSD Kopaonik Beograd. Jovan Đokić. 2011-05-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20110518143835/http://www.psd-kopaonik.org.rs/03KatalogplaninaSrbije.html. 2011-05-18. dead.
2. Web site: Seli se glavno oko Srbije. 2010-06-12 . Večernje Novosti . Serbian.
3. Web site: Nebeske oči Zvezdare gledaju sa Vidojevice. 2017-04-07 . Politika. Serbian .
4. http://www.astron-soc.in/bulletin/asics_vol007/187-Martinovic.pdf Future Robotic observatory on Mountain Vidojevica:site and equipment specification
5. Web site: Future science with metre-class telescopes . Milan . Bogosavljević.
6. Web site: First light of the Milanković telescope.