The BRIXIIS observatory is a privat astronomical observatory that you can find in
Kruibeke,
Belgium. About 10 km South of
Antwerp near the river 'De Schelde”. The observatory is running an operated by me (
Erik Bryssinck)
BRIXIIS was builded in 2005 and houses an 0.4-m diameter telescope on a 10Micron GM2000 Qci mount. The used CCD-camera is a SBIG ST10-XME with SBIG CFW-10 filter-wheel with UBVRI filters.
In the same year, a couple of months before starting of building the observatory,I started with observing comets and do afrho-measurements on comets in collaboration for
CARA-team of Italy.
The observatory was started with a program for Minor planets (astrometry) in 2009 and the observatory was allocated with observatory-code
B96 by the minor planet center on april 2009.
The main work for BRIXIIS observatory is:
- Afrho measurements of comets in collaboration for CARA-project
- Cometary astrometry
- Confirmation of new
Near Earth Objects to improve the calculation of the orbits.
What is BRIXIIS meaning ? BRIXIIS is the oldest spelling found of my surname (ca.1293).
