Observatorio La Cañada (La Cañada Observatory), is an amateur facility in Ávila, Spain privately owned by Juan Lacruz, the main activity is to monitor NEOs (Near Earth Objects) other asteroids and comets.
The observatory joined the International Astronomical Union sending the first astrometric observations in the summer of 2002. The Minor Planet Center assigned the observatory code J87: La Cañada.
Instrumental :
Telescope RCT 0.40m + CCD
J87 Observatory @ La Cañada, Ávila, Spain, a winter view
El observatorio en invierno
La Cañada Observatory 24-Jan-2015
M51, The Whirlpool galaxy
Eclipse lunar
Saturn 1-Agust-2015 La Cañada
Jupiter 2-April-2016
29P comet after outburst 04-Oct-2008
Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina from observatory J87 La Cañada on Dec the 6th 2015, tail disconnection event
C/2013 US10 Catalina, 06-Dec-2015
Comet C2014_Q2 Lovejoy, 27-Feb-2015, La Cañada, the Perseus double cluster in the field.
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, 24-Jan-2015, La Cañada
C2014 Q2 Lovejoy 09-Jan-2015 La Cañada
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, a CCD mosaic compostion taken on 09-Jan-2015 from Observatorio de La Cañada by Juan Lacruz. Telescope LX200R 0.40 m + SBIG STL 1001E, 6 stacks of 10 images each, every picture is 30 seconds worth, filter clear, unguided.
Cometa C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS desde Madrid, 14-Marzo-2013
Cometa C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS desde Madrid, 22-Marzo-2013
Cometa C/2009 R1 Mc Naught desde La Cañada, Ávila, 19-Junio-2010
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy 06-12-2013 La Cañada
La gran nebulosa de Orión, La Cañada 23-nov-2013
M42 nebulosa de Orion, La Cañada 4-enero-2019
La Galaxia de Andrómeda
29P 2008-10-04 J87 After outburst
Pleiades cluster
Pleiades, 04-enero-2019
Comet C/2020 (NEOWISE) 17-07-2020 20:51:57 UTC‚ La Cañada observatory