{"id":1609,"date":"2021-11-09T10:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.sc.uobaghdad.edu.iq\/?page_id=1609"},"modified":"2021-11-09T12:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:09:47","slug":"about-the-department-of-astronomy-and-space","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/en.sc.uobaghdad.edu.iq\/?page_id=1609","title":{"rendered":"About the Department of Astronomy and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Department of Astronomy and Space is one of the most modern scientific departments in the College of Science<\/span><\/p>\n

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\/ University of Baghdad. It was established in 1998, and since then the department has started granting a bachelor’s degree, and the department has awarded master’s and doctorate degrees in various and varied specializations in the field of astronomy and space sciences.<\/p>\n

The department qualifies its graduates to work in all fields related to this specialization, such as specialized research centers, astronomical observatories, and scientific care centers.\u00a0A graduate of the Astronomy Department is also qualified to work in the field of various applications of software sciences.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The tasks performed by the department<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Doing teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students in his field of specialization.\u00a0In addition to preparing research and theoretical and observational studies in various astronomical subspecialties using the available monitoring and analysis means, in coordination and cooperation with observatories and international organizations, identifying future astronomical phenomena and their impact on life on Earth, conducting laboratory studies to develop and design attached monitoring devices and preparing programs for analyzing and processing astronomical information.<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as the scientific contribution in determining the beginnings of the lunar months.<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduate qualifications<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Astronomy and Space of the College of Science – University of Baghdad is the only department of its kind in Iraqi universities that grants an academic degree in astronomy and image analysis.\u00a0The curricula developed by specialists in this field make the graduate of the Department of Astronomy possess a sufficient amount of information and skills that qualify him to work in many different fields, including in the field of astronomical observations, digital image analysis, remote sensing, space sciences, in addition to possessing a sufficient amount of information Which qualifies him to be a good teacher\u00a0<\/span>or educator in the subjects of astronomy, physics, mathematics, and computers,\u00a0<\/span>which qualifies him to work\u00a0<\/span>in various research and\u00a0<\/span>scientific\u00a0<\/span>institutions\u00a0<\/span>.\u00a0The outstanding graduate qualifies to complete his higher studies in the same department and in one of the following fields: astronomy, space, image analysis, remote sensing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0The history of the Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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The Department of Astronomy and Space is one of the most modern scientific departments in the College of Science \/ University of Baghdad.\u00a0It was established in 1998 and since then the department has started granting a bachelor’s degree, as the number of graduate students since the establishment of the department until the last academic year 2012\/2013 reached about (173) students. It qualifies the department\u2019s graduates to work in all fields related to this specialization, such as specialized research centers, astronomical observatories, and scientific care centers. A graduate of the Astronomy Department is also qualified to work in the field of various applications of software sciences.\u00a0The most important objectives of the Department of Astronomy is to teach and supervise undergraduate and graduate students in the field of its specialization.\u00a0In addition to preparing research and theoretical and observational studies in various astronomical subspecialties using the available monitoring and analysis means, in coordination and cooperation with observatories and international organizations, identifying future astronomical phenomena and their impact on life on Earth, conducting laboratory studies to develop and design attached monitoring devices and preparing programs for analyzing and processing astronomical information.\u00a0As well as the scientific contribution in determining the beginnings of the lunar months. The Department of Astronomy held several seminars and seminars within the department, where specialized lectures were given in the fields of astronomy and space, satellites, communications and digital image processing, in addition to public educational lectures in the field of astronomical observation. The department has formed research groups for all specializations, inside and outside the University of Baghdad.\u00a0In order to activate the scientific movement of the affiliates, so that each group is headed by one of the department\u2019s professors who holds a doctorate, and the members of the group hold a master\u2019s degree and a bachelor\u2019s degree, according to the specializations and scientific interests, and they are responsible for conducting relevant scientific research with the participation of all members of the group.\u00a0Postgraduate studies, PhD and MSc, were opened in the Department of Astronomy in 1998, where many students graduated from graduate degrees in various astronomical disciplines, and it is the only department that grants these certificates at the country level. The country was in that period and was reopened again in 2007-2008 and for masters only, according to international curricula and modern specializations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, I cannot fail to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to the masters who have preceded me in taking the honor of heading the department since its inception and who have the credit for what the department has achieved in terms of its scientific status and built the infrastructure for its future development, namely:<\/span><\/p>\n

A.M.D.\u00a0Grace Lafta Jaber Al-Wasiti 1998-1999<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.M.D.\u00a0Iyad Abdul Aziz Al-Ani 1999-2003<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.M.D.\u00a0Ali Talib Muhammad 2003-2011<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.M.D.\u00a0Kamal Muhammed Abboud Dia Al-Din 2011-2015<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Dr.\u00a0Bushra Qassem Naqib 2015-2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A.M.D.\u00a0Ban Abdul Razzaq Abbas 2018 until now<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Services provided by the department to the community<\/strong><\/span>
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