The Facility is managed by the French amateur astronomy association "AstroQueyras".

In 1990 amateur astronomers were granted use of its 62 cm Cassegrain telescope.

The main-belt asteroid 48159 Saint-Véran was discovered at and named for the observatory and its hosting village.

[3] Presumably, it was the first discovery made at the observatory on 16 April 2001, synchronous with 264476 Aepic.

The Minor Planet Center credits the observatory with the discovery of the following asteroids between 2001 and 2005: