The quick breakthrough in astronomy as science, followed by spectacular inventions and accomplishments, assists a huge interest between the youth generation.

In sections of Youth Culture Center works the only planetarium in Republic of Macedonia. Tt is build like a special construction integrity and it`s appoined with small instrument ZKP-1, produced in far 1970 by a famous producer of planetariums Karl Zeiss from Germany.

Beside this condition, lecturers in the planetariums across the lectures in live (not recorded like in the other planetariums in the world) to reply all the failures in techical equipment, and get at universe, heavenly body and laws of the nature to all the audience. Every year over 10000 visitors are visiting the planetarium, first of all the students from primary and high schools from entire republic.

With this, planetarium has become one of the important segments of culture industry, specialy in the culture tourism.

Activities: Organizing group visitations and speaches, enclosed with presentational chance of the equipment to planetarium, wich is a purpose, to enrich knowledges and understanding the actions that are happening in the nature, across visualization in nature look and moves in the sky and use of video inserts and computer animations.

- Organizing research activities in the sphere of Etnoastronomy, wich presents extension of twenty two year old collecting, processing and representing of etnological datas related with the sky, the earth and nature in general, from the population on the teritory of Skopje and in Macedonia.

- Organizing research activities in the sphere of Arheoastronomy or extending the researches to Megalithic observatory Kokino, in the community Staro Nagoricane, like arheological locality from megalithic period, but in the similar localities on the teritory of Skopje and in Macedonia too.

International Cooperation. Last year, the sky was involved in the registry of the world culture heritage of UNESKO in public. In the last few decades has proved that astronomy has lot of contiguous items with etnology, astrology, agriculture, religion or in general with organization in life and cultural and spiritual creation especialy in the early stadiums in the evolution of human civilization. Today in many universities in the world the lectures of astronomy in culture like arheoastonomy, etnoastronomy, and many other are given. In the last year with assistance of few significant international meetings and conferences localities and scientific awareness from area of arheoastronomy and etnoastronomy in front of nonfiction public were affirmed. That`s why this year it is planed to take part in many international science community and to affirm localities, wares, relics and practice appropriate, which took part in common cultural heritage of Macedonia.

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1. Arheoastronomy

Arheoastronomy is a relatively young science discipline. The first known measures and interpretations of the popular locality Stonehenge in England, which are made by popular astronomer and physician Norman Lockyer in the beggining of the twentieth century. However, the basics of this science discipline were placed by Gerald Hawkins with publishing of the detailed analise of the same locality, in the popular science magazine "Nature" in 1963. The same author in 1979 sets basic six rules for research and evaluate of the results in that sphere.

Arheoastronomy is actualy interdisciplinar science area. The huge number of the informations that comes a day from the study resarches in the individual sciences, often took us to strict sprecialization of the scientific employers from one same science. In time, we forget the fact that there are lot of interdisciplinar problems and inventions, and for their studies, and interpretations a multidisciplinar acess is necessary. In their researches the arheologists often pay big attention on the social and cultural aspects of the localities, neglecting the astronomical background, for example very often they did not claim even the precise geographical coordinates of the location, which took the main part in the astronomical observations. Astronomers from their side, very often pay big attention on the astronomical aspects, neglecting the function and requirements of the people who build that objects. Arheoastronomy makes an attempt for crossing this differences, although it is dificult to separate one from the other field of work.

2. Etnoastronomy

Already long time enought the scientific project Etnoastronomy has been realised. In parts of this project almost 20 years the informations are gathered from the population of Macedonia, for the old national names of the costeslatinons, stars, meteors, comets, planets, the Sun and the moon. In the same time all the relics and traditions conected with heavenly body are gathered and also all the phenomenons that happens in the sky.

Very interesting informations are received, which shows that macedonian people has his own dichotomy of the sky and their starlit map, which in many ways is diferent from that on the old greeks, and which applies in the astronomy. We call all the people who have some knowledge of this area or want to work on this researches in Macedonia or out of her, to join us.

3. KOKINO

In basic of the supposition that arheological locality Tatichev Stone close the vilage Kokino in republic of Macedonia has a significant function in observing the movement of the heavenly bodies, were done some preliminary investigations and dully measurements. Some standardizied signs are remarked for qualifying the positions of the Sun in the days of the summer long lasting days also spring and autumn equinox, even on position of the moon in days of the biggest value on declination in the winter. Based on the measurements and mathematical processing it is certain determinate the inclination on the earth axle on rotation and trought the formulas from arheoastronomy qualifies the time when the marks were build.

The results shows that the locality has been build in 1851 year before new era and he has accent function in observing the heavenly bodies. On that locality it has a special space for performing rituals, whereupon in him has been found a huge number of objects which descend from the period of about 1500 years before new era. The good preservation of the locality, his impozant dimensions and outlook also the received results from the measurements shows that it is one must important locality, which through lot of his own caracteristics is the onlyone in the world. The locality according to arheoastronomical criteria it can take part in the line of the significant old observatories in the world, that`s why in complete he defends the name Megalith observatory in Kokino.