The largest telescope in Kazakhstan - the 1.5-m telescope at Assy-Turgen Observatory - has undergone a major upgrade. A 4-lens quartz field corrector with the diameter of 280 mm has been installed.

Хайдельберг Университетінің бас парақшасында "Шашыраңқы жұлдыздық шоғырлар біз ойлағаннан ұзағырақ өмір сүреді" деген тақырыппен, біздің жас ғалымымыз Шүкірғалиев Бекдәулеттің Университтің Астрономия орталағындағы әріптестерімен бірігіп ашқан ғылыми жаңалығы туралы пресс-релиз жарияланды.

Here you can download the 2019 astronomical calendar compiled for Almaty location: sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset moments,  length of days, moments of equinoxes and solstices (pdf, 790kb).

On November 23, at 10 a.m. we have a double lecture, where Prof. Jürgen Schmitt of the Hamburg Observatory will present a talk entitled "eROSITA - A new all-sky survey in X-rays", and Dr. Alexei Pozanenko of the Space Research Institute (Russia) will talk about gamma-ray bursts and their relation to gravitational waves.

The NUTTelA-TAO project is a collaboration between Energetic Cosmos Laboratory (Nazarbayev University), Space Sciences Laboratory (University of California, Berkeley), and FAPHI. The project aims at studying deep space events related to optical afterglow of gamma-ray bursts and other processes requiring fast response for their investigation. The original design of the dome allows to start observations in automatic mode immediately after receiving the object's coordinates from the satellite.

On October 18, 2018, at 11 a.m. we have a seminar by the PhD-student of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (Heidelberg University, Germany), entitled "The life of star clusters, from birth to dissolution: a new approach".

On Friday, September 7, 2018, at 10 a.m. we have a talk by Prof. Remo Ruffini, the President of the International Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA).  The subject of the talk is "GRB180728A, our predicted Supernova denominated on 27 August SN2018fip and conceptual inferences".