The research activity is in accordance with the technical means. A Sun’s patrol has been acting here for more than 10 years now. It makes visual drawings and takes pictures of the spot making activity of the Sun’s photosphere each sunny day.

The Planetarium works actively on the visual and photographic recording of all solar and lunar eclipses and other astronomical phenomena observed in Bulgaria.

A considerable number of archival materials have been gathered. The Planetarium specialists examine also the astrnomical knowledge kept by the old people in the Rhodopes region. During its existence of twenty years the Smolyan Planetarium with Astronomical Observatory has set up its own specific style of working and has won recognition both in our country and abroad.