Watch the stars at the GAISH Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory.
Excursion to the Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory on Big Almaty Lake.
The space station, the GAISH observatory is located at an altitude of 2835 meters above sea level and is located on a small flat plateau among the mountains of the Zailiyskiy Alatau. The observatory has two Ritchie-Chretien telescopes with a mirror diameter of one meter and several smaller telescopes. However, the largest instrument is the local radio telescope.
Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory of GAISH - how to get there.
Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory (TSAO) is located in Kazakhstan. It is located on the Zailiyskiy Alatau ridge, in the region of the Big Almaty Lake, 30 km south of Almaty and at an altitude of 3000 meters.
GAISH - information for tourists.
Today the observatory consists of two parts - the Special Solar Observatory and the Astronomical Observatory. Both are part of the National Center for Space Research and Technology of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan. They are included in the list of strategic objects of the country, surrounded by barbed wire and a checkpoint.
Both observatories of the Astrophysical Institute, together with the space station, are connected into a single network. All photographs taken are automatically transferred to the library, which can be accessed online and from the university with which the observatory works on international projects.
Tien Shan Astronomical Station - History.
The observatory was founded in the summer of 1957 by Elena Aleksandrovna Makarova within the framework of the International Geophysical Year program as an observatory base of the State Astronomical Institute named after V.I. Sternberg (one of the departments of Moscow State University) for astronomical expeditions. In 1962, it became a permanent observation station, and later - an observatory.
GAISH on BAO - general information.
The Astronomical Observatory also includes the observation station of the Institute of the Ionosphere of Kazakhstan (Radio polygon "Orbit"). In the near future, it is planned to install an automated 50-centimeter telescope in cooperation with the South Korean Institute of Astronomy and Space Sciences. The goal is to connect to four similar telescopes in Mongolia, South Africa, Australia and Turkey and become part of a global network of small telescopes. This will allow scientists to cover the entire night sky and observe objects continuously.
Space station at the Zhusaly Kezen pass.
The Tien Shan high-altitude space research station is part of the Russian Physics Institute. P.N. Lebedev. It is located above the Special Solar Observatory on the Zhusaly-Kezen pass, at an altitude of 3336 m above sea level. It was founded in 1957 and observes and registers particles of cosmic radiation.
GAISH - Tien Shan Astronomical Observatory
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