page_title: Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory
section_title: Foreign cooperation
hierarchical_section_title: Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory / Foreign cooperation
caption_attribution_description: English: for agreement
context_page_description: Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory is an observatory in the Caucasus Mountains in Azerbaijan. It is named after Nasreddin Tusi. It is located on the eastern slope of Pirqulu, at an elevation of 1500 m. It has 150–200 clear, cloudless nights per year.
context_section_description: Cooperation between Baku State University and Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory began on April 6, 2017, with the establishment of an Astrophysics chair of Baku State University at Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory and an agreement was signed establishing a branch of the Astrophysics Department of BSU in the observatory. The document was signed by the rector of Baku State University, academician Abel Maharramov, and the director of the observatory, Namig Jalilov. According to the relevant contract, in October 2018, the Branch of the Astrophysics Department of Physics Faculty of BSU has opened its branch in the observatory.
  Many employees had been elected members of the International Astronomical Union, the European Astronomical Society, and the Eurasian Astronomical Union. The Observatory is also a member of the International Astronautics Union.
  The staff of the observatory works together with foreign astronomers on a number of issues. During the existence of the observatory, its staff published more than 2,500 articles in foreign and local journals.The solar physics and solar-earth problems have involved close cooperation with researchers in Russia, Germany, Israel, Bulgaria, and Georgia and different astronomical organizations of other countries. Star physics research is being carried out with Russian Observatory staff (Russian EA KhAR, Moscow State University of Schnberg State Astronomical Institute, St. Petersburg DU, etc.). The mobile station of Stanford University operates in the observatory.
  Students and practitioners from many foreign countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Iran and Turkey come to the Observatory to learn how to use the telescope. Many of the results obtained in the observatory have been cited by world academics.
caption: SHAO and BSU
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