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An observatory on Mount Onidake in Goto, known for how well the stars show.
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The Goto City Ondake Observatory is a public observatory on the mid-slope of Mt. Ondake in Kamiotsucho, Goto, Nagasaki Prefecture. Opened in 1991 (Heisei 3). Through the municipal merger of August 2004, it was renamed from its former name, Fukue City Ondake Observatory, to its present name. On September 2, 2007, it took part in ground observations of thermospheric wind measurement jointly with Kochi University of Technology, JAXA and others. In 2009, it took part in the International Year of Astronomy 2009. 60 cm aperture Newtonian reflecting telescope 10 cm aperture refracting telescope (using fluorite lenses)
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