Changguang stands for the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It was founded in 1952 and a large number of researchers in the field of optoelectronics have been trained there. It is hailed as “the Cradle of Optics in China”.
Discovered on 16-9-1997 in Xinglong by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program