Rostec affiliated Shvabe Holding has opened the doors of a new optical laboratory for teachers and students. A presentation of the unique educational facility’s opportunities was made in mid-January in Lytkarino, Moscow suburb.
“The new laboratory is an unprecedented in Russia unique facility for an intellectual pastime for children and the youth. Outer space observation and training opportunities for schoolchildren will be offered here. Students will be able to use the laboratory to implement research projects or just for fact-finding visits. We also plan to invite leading astronomers to conduct lectures, seminars and practical trainings at our centre. The optical laboratory alongside with the observatory is a great contribution to the education of pupils and students from Lytkarino and other Moscow Region cities,” said Aleksander Ignatov, CEO of LZOS.
The interactive optical centre with the observatory was established by Lytkarino Optical Glass Plant in conjunction with the city’s local history museum. The complex is equipped with the most high-tech LZOS inventions in the astronomic optics. Its key exhibit is a Ritchey–Chrétien telescope “Astrorubinar-400” designed to monitor planets and extended objects in a wide field of view, to track and picture asteroids, comets, new and galactic supernovas, as well as to study variables and other outer space objects. It can be instrumental for examining smaller than 1.5 km formations on the moon, small clouds, small structures on Mars, planets and their satellites, comets flying by and other space objects.
