1. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
10 MAY 2010
Astronomy Club
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A brief review of our activities: Jan-Mar 2010
We are looking...
As we move into the
new academic session, it’s
time for the freshies to step
up and take the baton, as
they enter their sophomore
year. It’s the time of the year
when the old subsides to
make way for the new. It’s
the time we start looking for
motivated people who can
drive the club into its
complete maturity, while
ke e p i n g i t s f o u n d i n g
principles intact. If you feel
you are up to the challenge,
feel more than free to
contact any of the core
members any(?) time of the
day.:
Anant Jain: 98 717 240 72
This is a small effort to the next semester, starting this Abhishek Su. : 99 909 097 60
introduce you, the reader, to the July. Till then, you can enjoy Abhisek Sh: 99 902 454 12
activities of the Astronomy Club, reading about our activities this
at IIT Delhi in the first semester semester, join the club or just
of its very existence. It’s been an follow us on %. To be a member
exciting semester overall, though of the club, fill the google form at
most of our activities weren’t bit.ly/astroclubiitd You
evenly spaced out, mainly shall automatically receive an
because of the nature of the invite for the google group and
semester itself here at IIT Delhi. updates for new sessions. Enjoy :)
There’s lots more coming up for
ONLINE PRESENCE - THE GOOGLE GROUP AND THE FACEBOOK PAGE
The club can proudly speak of its presence in home space to act as a local repository for free
the online world. Though a separate website for the softwares and e-books for the club. Moreover,
same is still in the pipeline, the club has discussions on the group range from the
found 237 fans on its facebook page. recent Lyrid Meteor Showed Peak on
Also, both the google group and the 22nd April, 2010 to the Galazy Zoo to
facebook pages are actively updated astronomical events for a month... It
with discussions or information about goes on and on, and the club can be
the latest activities and events in the proud to have an active community of
astronomical world. Moreover, Nitin, one of our students who make sure that one thing or the other
freshies has been kind enough to let us use his user is coming up, every now and then...
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2. INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
10 MAY 2010
A BRIEF SUMMARY...
CHRONOLOGICALLY... Want to make a
Here’s a session-by-session telescope?
review of what we did as part of Prof. Ranganathan is looking
the Astronomy Club for people interested in optics
and mechanical designing of a
Session 0 ( ~100 attendees) telescope. Let us know. We’ll
put you in touch with him :)
Ja n 2 9 : T h e n e e d , t h e
proposed activities - theory and
observation sessions, excursions, Core Team
projects were discussed. Plus, ABHISHEK SHARAN
Anant Jain talking about his M101 S u r a n a , S h a r a n a n d A n a n t
project: Session 0 EP Junior year. The
introduced their past work in the
We started off on the January field. wisest in the
29th this year, with out first group, this guys
s e s s i o n c o v e r i n g a b a s i c Session 1 ( ~60 attendees) makes sure that
introduction to the club - Feb 17: Some basic concepts - the google group
introducing a structure for the Magnitudes, Bayer Letter System, stays alive :)
Technocracy Special Interest Messiers, NGC Catalogues, the NITIN JAIN
G r o u p s , i n t r o d u c i n g w h a t celestial sphere, alt-az, RA-Dec,
C S Fr e s h i e .
‘astronomy’ we could play with, Va r i a b l e s t a r s , s u p e r n o v a
The smartest
what ‘astronomy’ we could work remnants,clusters, nebulae were
one in the
u p o n s e r i o u s l y. It w a s a n introduced to the group by
group. Double
introduction to how much fun we Anant. Also, Nitin helped in
gold medallist
could have and how much fun i n t r o d u c i n g s o m e o f t h e
at IOAA. Surely our source of
some of us had already had in this constellations and asterisms (and
knowledge (and wisdom)
field. It was a short and sweet some cool stories behind them)
session, lasting an hour (precise;) through Stellarium. ABHISHEK SURANA
This was followed by another Elec Engg
session, by one of the guys who Session 2 ( ~60+ attendees) Sophomore.
thinks he has good presentation March 13: Raghu started off Undoubtedly
skills, which alas is so not true with pointing the scopes to the the most
(work over it !!) Anyways, people awesome Orion Nebule, right up enthusiastic
seemed to enjoy learning about near the zenith. Being hugely one, this guy keeps the social
the basic concepts of Astronomy attended, he was shot with a lot community alive with his FB
- what’s ecliptic, what’s RA, of questions and queries about updates.
what’s Dec - stuff essential to astronomy, which he patiently
and fina"y,
know before even stepping out to answered while walking the
watch the heavens even with a people though the sky. ANANT JAIN
naked eye. This was followed by a Elec Engg
Session 3 (never took place !)
session by one of the best Sophomore.
amateur astronomers in Delhi as We had planned a session on The guy who
of now, Raghu from the AAAD May the 7th, right after majors, simply knew
(Amateur A s t r o n o m y when ever ybody is f ree and he had to go
Association, Delhi) He procured jollying around. More so because ahead with the club after his
2 t e l e s c o p e s f r o m Ne h r u the skies were expected to be IOAA. No matter what.
Planetarium, and showed the c l e a r. B u r a l a s , d u e t o t h e Sankalp Dayal, Nishant
attendees some awesome stuff - awesome weather we have these Ranka and Sushant Maheshwari
including the Orion Nebula, days, it’s all so non-May and non- - your contribution can’t even be
some planets, and even a messier Delhi - it’s cloudy up there. So we put into words. Be our guiding
or two. This session was also a had to drop the idea and wrap up light. Always.
part of the Tryst, as a workshop. the club’s activities for the
semester.
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