Under the patronage of the Dean of the College of Science, Dr. Mowaffaq Fadel Shahwan, and under the supervision of the Associate Dean of Science, Dr. Alaa Hassan Abdullah, and the Head of the Physics Department, Prof. Dr. Haitham Lafta Saadoun, the College of Science at the University of Basra hosted the amateur astronomers team of Basra Governorate at the Karmat Ali site for observing the moon and the sun
