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[http://www.astron.kharkov.ua/] HOME SEARCH UKRAINIAN Institute of Astronomy Kharkiv National University General V.N.Karazin KhNU Home News History Staff Photo Gallery Getting Here Contacts Restoration of the Observational Station Research Department of Astrophysics Laboratory of Astrometry Department of Physics of Asteroids and Comets Department of Remote Sensing of Planets Department of Solar, Lunar and Planetary Physics Chuguev Observation Station Library Education Department of Astronomy and Space Informatics, Faculty of Physics Astronomy Museum Admission Planetarium Meetings Conferences Seminar Publications Mass Media Books Catalogs Databases Models Memorable Articles Web Projects Station of Solar Monitoring Space Weather KhNU > Institute of Astronomy Research staff of the Institute of Astronomy and the Department of Astronomy consists of 38 researchers, including 7 doctors of science and 15 candidates of science (PhDs). The Institute of Astronomy is located in two sites. The main office is in the center of Kharkov near the University, and the Chuguyev Observation Station of the Institute of Astronomy is sitiated in 70 km southeast from Kharkov. Fund for the restoration of the Chuguyiv observation station: The war "blinded" university astronomy The Institute of Astronomy has the following departments: * Department of Astrophysics , (The chief is Dr. A.P. Zheleznyak). * Laboratory of Astrometry (The chief is Prof. P.N.Fedorov); * Department of physics of asteroids and comets (The chief is Prof. I.N.Belskaya); * Department of remote sensing of planets (The chief is the correspondent member of NANU, Prof. Yu.G.Shkuratov); * Department of physics of the Sun, the Moon and planets (The chief is Dr. V.V.Korokhin). Institute of Astronomy has the library with more than 40000 scientific books and jornals, including books from V. N. Karazin and L.O.Struve's private libraries. The main instruments of the Institute of Astronomy are the 70-cm telescope AZT-8, a spectroheliograph and a Solar telescope AFR-2. Scientific observation programs are carried out also at telescopes of Abastumani Astrophysical observatory Maidanak observatory European Southern Observatory . Researchers of Institute of Astronomy are members of the International Astronomical Union, the European Astronomical Society and the American Astronomical Society. 36 objects of Solar system are named in honor of Kharkiv astronomers. Google+ © 1999–2017 Institute of Astronomy , V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Last Updated: 2023/03/31.