Origins abd transfornation of scientific astrometric research: Main Astronomica; Observatory of the NAS of Ukraine

1Artemenko, TG
1Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Space Sci. & Technol. 2025, 31 ;(1):53-69
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2025.01.053
Publication Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: 
The paper dedicated to the highlights the formation and transformation of the astrometric schools of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine — the scientific school of fundamental astronomy, positional astrometry and global geodynamics of A cademician Oleksandr Yakovych Orlov, the Scientific School of fundamental astronomy and selenodesy of the Corresponding member of the Academy of Science professor Avenir Oleksandrovych Yakovkin and the scientific direction of I. G. Kolchinsky, A. B. Onegina and A. S. Kharina on photographic and positional astrometry.  
      The main directios of research of the scientific school in fundamental astronomy, positional astrometry, and global geodynamics are: creation of catalogs of faint stars, stars of the latitudinal program, radio sources, mathematical methods of researching the change of latitudes and the movement of the Earth’s poles, fundamental astronomy (study of astronomical constants), application of the movement of the poles and irregularities of the Earth’s rotation (laser location of the artificial satellites of the Earth, VLBI-observations, GNSS-observations). The introduction of new observational methods and tools contributes to the further development of the school and the preservation of it’s scientific traditions.
     The research of representatives of the scientific school of fundamental astronomy and selenodesy concerns first astrometric mapping of rhe surface Moon’s details with using data orbital satelites; study of stellar dynamics, kinematics and structure of the Galaxy.
      The results of research in the scientific direction on photographic and positional astrometry are discussed. The role of the Ukrainian Virtual Observatory (UkrVo) in the current development of the scientific direction, which is connected with the possibility of digitizing astroplates and carrying out photographic surveys of the sky (FON program), is indicated. On the basis of the received catalogs under the FON program, research was conducted on the search for asteroids, earlier observations of large planets and small bodies of the Solar System were reworked.
Keywords: academic school, astrometry, selenodezy, space geodynamics, space research
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