MODERNIZATION OF ARMENIA’S BYURAKAN OBSERVATORY NEEDS $50 MILLION EVERY YEAR- EXPERT
YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. Modernization of Armenia’s Byurakan
Observatory will cost $50 million every year, Areg Mikayelyan,
vice-president of the Armenian Astronomic Society, said Thursday at
a news conference.
“With this amount we will afford at least to keep our telescope in
a proper state and periodically provide the observatory with modern
equipment,” he said.
In his words, after the observatory was recognized a national treasure
this year, AMD 100 million was allocated for these purposes, but this
amount is enough only for partial restoration of the mirror of the
big telescope (diameter is 2.6 meters).
At the same time, Mikayelyan stressed that periodical, not one-time
financing is needed to keep the observatory at a proper level.
The Byurakan Observatory was established in 1946. In 1998,
the observatory was named for prominent astrophysicist Viktor
Hambardzumyan, its founder and first director. The observatory studies
non-stationary phenomena at starts and galaxies. ($1- 405.40).
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