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Alakhawayn University:A Serious Thought About Astronomy in Morocco
Dr. Hassane DarhmaouiIjlal LoutfiZineb Chaoui AzizHassan BourhrousThe AUI Astronomy Club
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Other Efforts
• The Rabat Observatory• The Oukaimden Observatory• 4 Universities with departments of
Astrophysics.
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Rabat ObservatoryFounded in 1999510 mm telescopeTwo C8 200 mm robotic telescopesTwo 110 mm and 60 mm telescopesCCD camera SBIG7
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High Energy Physics & Astrophysics Laboratory – University Cadi Ayyad Marrakech
Founded in 1988350 mm telescopeLongitude: 7° 52´52 West Latitude: 31° 12´32 North Height: 2700 meters
Oukaimeden Observatory
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Alakhawayn University:Science, mainly CS
5 Years ago: We started a club
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Asteroid Search
• AUI scored 3 Asteroids:– K07T38O– K07T15X– K07U14Q
• Confirmed 1 NEO:– 2007 UG6
• Soon: Supernova search campaign
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Arabic Translation of SalsaJ
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Astronomy Education• A team of the Astronomy Club is now
working on writing astronomy materials in Arabic for middle school pupils– Need to Bug the government
• Preparing workshops.
• Astronomy lectures and star gazing sessions on and off campus
• IYA2009: Mobile planetarium and telescopes.
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Future Projects• Building and buying telescopes
• Building an observatory
• Introducing astronomy courses and later a physics and astronomy department– While waiting for that, go to Beograd.
• National Conference
• CRT
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Partnerships• Oxford Astrophysics
• Carnegie Mellon.
• Hands On Universe for the development of astronomy in Morocco
• The International Astronomical Union sponsors our students’ visits to other departments as well as sending professional astronomers to our campus to give lectures.
• Soon: Caltech?
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Хвала Београд