Looking back on the passing year, we are proud to note that in 2021 FAI has participated in two competitions for program-targeted funding, and in both cases our programs were approved. The first program, funded by the Science Committe (MES RK) is dedicated to the development of the national virtual observatory: vo.fai.kz. The second program, funded by the ...

This week, during September 6-8, FAI participated in the online workshop on stellar dynamics and active galactic nuclei, organized by the Volkswagen Trilateral Project and China-Kazakhstan collaboration.

Here you can download the 2021 astronomical calendar compiled for Almaty location: sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset moments,  length of days, moments of equinoxes and solstices.

The Khabar 24 channel has covered a news story about Assy-Turgen astrophysical observatory and about the observations carried out there.

The 12th Kazakhstan-China-Korea Meeting on Stellar Dynamics and related fields (KCK-2020) will be hosted this year by the Energetic Cosmos Laboratory of Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan city), during October 26-30, 2020. The workshop title includes only three countries; nonetheless, participants from any country are welcomed. [workshop postponed]

There was information in some local mass media that the solar eclipse of December 26, 2019 will be observed in Almaty at 11:18 a.m. In fact, however, the peak of the eclipse will occur almost an hour earlier, at 10:12, while by the mentioned time it will be over. The maximum disk coverage will reach 27%.

On December 4, 2019 at 11 a.m. we have a seminar entitled "Rotational evolution of neutron stars in gaseous medium with magnetic field", which will be delivered by Vitaliy Kim, a researcher in the laboratory of physics of stars and nebulae of FAPHI.