Observatories

Two observatories are located within our school campus. Observatories house two portable solar telescopes and two fixed optical telescopes with 60 cm diameter mirror refractors. Each observatory building has two classrooms, providing our students with a practical learning space, as they are next to the telescopes.

As our observatories have a fixed optical telescope with solar filters put inside, students can safely study sunspots, explosions, and eclipses since the solar-filtered telescopes allow safe observations of Solar objects.

Thanks to the oculars (eyepiece) with various magnification powers (4-26 mm) and the Lunar filter, our satellite and thousands of faint objects can be examined in detail during night observations.

Astronomy classes are taught in the classrooms located at the observatories, and astronomy clubs are being held simultaneously at all grades from elementary school to high school. The course content of the astronomy classes has been in modules that lessons will be different at each grade level.

The teachers of our kindergarten and primary school classes also use the observatories in the respective units to ensure that our students gain knowledge of astronomy at an early age and keep their interests alive.

Observatories allow primary school students to explore the universe and nurture their interest in astronomy, which aims to support their scientific curiosity. This learning space provides an engaging and informative introduction to the world of astronomy.