Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.

[2] It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.

[3] The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here.

[4] As of 2012[update], 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.

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