Ukrainian astroforum '09

[Roman White]

I am just back home from one of the main astronomic events of the year - the Ukrainian astronomic forum 2009, which took place in Kharkiv on May 21-24. More than 50 amateurs from different cities met together at Kharkov planetarium and spent wonderful 3 days there.

Next are only few of total 396 photos... 

Kharkov planetarium from outside...


Kharkov planetarium from inside...


'Cosmos museum', also there


Viewing Saturn through 150/2250mm 'Meniskas' Cassegrain telescope, also in planetarium

[martinastro]

Fantastic Roman!, looks to have been a great experience meeting all of those Astronomers, you must have had a great time there. Love the images from inside the planetarium and of the big mak..nice 

[Big Dipper]

I agree with Martin. Looks very impressive and glad that you had a good time Roman.

[Roman White]

Thanks Martin and Andy, now I will try to upload more from our 'astronomic sightseeing'  

UTR-2 (Ukrainian T-shaped radiotelescope) is one of the greatest ukrainian telescopes, and the biggest radiotelescope in the world (along with LOFAR) in decameter wavelength. No another telescope can receive signal at 10~30 MHz with similar quality.
It was created in 1970's. The telescope has 2x1 km size and 150.000 m² of effective area. See more at Wikimapia

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