Nyrölä Observatory is an amateur

Amateur astronomy

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the night sky , and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars...

 astronomical observatory in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It is owned and operated by the astronomical association Jyväskylän Sirius ry, and located in the countryside village of Nyrölä

Nyrölä

Nyrölä is a district and neighbourhood of Jyväskylä, Finland.An amateur astronomical observatory Nyrölä Observatory is located in Nyrölä....

 near Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä

Jyväskylä is the capital of Central Finland and the largest city on the Finnish Lakeland, north-east of Tampere and north of Helsinki, on northern coast of lake Päijänne. The city has been continuously one of the most rapidly growing cities in Finland since World War II. The city is surrounded...

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Discoveries: asteroid 22978 Nyrölä

22978 Nyrölä

22978 Nyrölä is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1596.6944876 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 14, 1999.It was named after the Nyrölä Observatory in Finland.-References:...

 that was the first asteroid discovered by Finnish amateur astronomers, Harri Hyvönen, Marko Moilanen and Arto Oksanen

Arto Oksanen

Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer. He has been actively working in the fields of variable stars, asteroid search programs, gamma ray bursts, CCD photometry and building state-of-the-art amateur observatories in Finland...

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