# Maidanak

*Observatory*

Maidanak Observatory, Uzbekistan

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Where it is | 38.6700° N, 66.9000° E |
| State | UZ |
| What is done there | optical observatory |
| Main mirror | 1.5 m |
| Still working | yes |

Test ranges, observatories and ground stations are a hand-picked list kept in this project rather than a published catalogue: no catalogue answers which of the world's thousands of observing sites belong on a map of it. The article below is what lets the choice be argued with.

## Elsewhere

- This place on the live map: https://www.orbitalmap.space/?at=38.67,66.90
- The article this row is vouched by: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F
- Every object: https://www.orbitalmap.space/o/
- What this site is and what it reads: https://www.orbitalmap.space/llms.txt

## Where this came from

Compiled 2026-09-17. Selected by hand for this project.