Activities
Another mission of Adıyaman University Observatory is to carry out popular astronomy activities that will satisfy the curiosity of primary, secondary, high school, university students and the local people in Adıyaman to astronomy. Within the scope of these activities, upon request, they organize school trips and visit the observatory with the advisor teachers. In addition, the Astronomy Club at our university has been active until 2019. In addition to all this, Prof. Dr. Eda SONBAŞ DHUGA visits the schools of primary, secondary and high schools in Adıyaman and makes presentations in order to increase students' interest and curiosity in science and astronomy. She made her last visit to Adıyaman Science High School before the pandemic.
Some of the activities held at the Observatory are;
- Between June 2018 and April 2019, a short “Let's Get to Know the Sky” presentation was made every Wednesday night when the weather conditions are suitable, followed by presentation observations were made with a 15 cm telescope. Schools and groups that wanted to come to the observatory during this process were usually directed to participate in this activity.
- On 06.03.2018, Anatolian Youth Association visited the observatory with 15 people.
- On 14.11.2018, the students of the Demokrasi Primary School 3B class came to visit the observatory.
- On 8.11.2018, Adıyaman High School of Science students visited the observatory. "Let's Know the Sky" seminar was given the students.
- On 19.10.2018, Şehit Musa Özalkan Secondary School’s science teacher Fatma DAĞ and her students visited the observatory, and a "Let's Know the Sky" seminar was given beforehand.
- On 2.10.2018, students of Ebu Sadık AHHL Science and Social Sciences Project School visited the observatory and a "Let's Know the Sky" seminar was given.
- Between 2017 – 2018, many different student groups visited the observatory at Altınşehir Primary School and Zübeyde Hanım Kindergarten.
On 4 December 2019, Elazig Mezre Secondary School Students visited to the Observatory. A presentation was made to the students at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and then observations were made at the night at observatory.
Many activities were carried out by Astronomy Club of University with the leadership of Rümeysa YALÇIN who is the Food Engineering student and with the advisor of Prof. Dr. Eda SONBAŞ DHUGA. Some of these activities:
o stand of astronomy club at March 2018
o meeting of astronomy club and astronomy talks with new members at March 2018
o Popular astronomy conversations at April 2018
o ending of term meeting at May 2018
o Giving information about telescopes at November 2018
o Observation of Meteor Shower at December 2018
o Moon Observation at March 2019
o Moon Observation at April 2019
o information about Jupiter May 2019
A Sky Observation Festival from the Astronomy Club of our University;
A Sky Observation Festival which was organized by ADYU-ARMER on the central campus of Adıyaman University
Project of “Adventure of Nature from Earth to Sky in Adıyaman” with the Adıyaman Science and Art Center (BİLSEM);
- In this context, a total of two TUBITAK projects, in 2017 and 2018, were realized with the participation of the Observatory. These projects are; TUBITAK-117B201 –(Instructor Prof. Dr. Eda Sonbaş), TUBITAK-118B588–(Instructors Dr. Lecturer Nazlı KARAMAN and Prof. Dr. Eda Sonbaş)