The 45th parallel Observatory, recognized by the Minor Planet Center, is located on the Turin hill, very close to the INAF Pino Torinese Observatory (code IAU 022). The altitude is approximately 500 meters asl. The name chosen comes of course from the latitude of the site, just a few kilometers away from the parallel of the same name.

Observatory main telescope is a 40 cm f/20 Classical Cassegrain, manufactured by CFF. This is supported by a C8EdgeHD for works with a smaller image scale and/or larger FoV.

The activities carried out are mainly:

• monitoring activity of Solar System planets;
• asteroid astrometry (confirmation and recovery of NEA, Near Earth Objects);
• double stars astrometry;
• monitoring of lunar impacts.

An all-sky cam for the surveillance of fireballs will soon be installed, and photometry work on variable stars and asteroids will also be started.