Another Practical Astronomy Session by Big Dipper Astronomy Club @ IIT, Bhubaneswar
About Big Dipper Astronomy Club
Big Dipper Astronomy Club is one of the very active group of Astro Lovers and Research Scholars from Bhubaneswar. More than 100 members are part of this club. Members including me are involved in various night sky watching programs and theory session for both Practical astronomy and theoretical astronomy of both beginners and advanced level. We are doing programs (free/paid) at various schools and colleges like Xavier, KIIT, KISS, DIV etc from last 5 years.
Big Dipper Astronomy Club also have more than 800 members in our facebook group who are sharing lots of knowledge and idea about astronomy.
here is the link if you like to join
https://www.facebook.com/groups/190983004370399/
On March 19th this year, I got an opportunity to have some time with very talented students from IIT, Bhubaneswar. I discussed some basic observation tips and techniques. And again on 9th November 2017 I got another invitation from the students from IIT for another session of practical astronomy.
Our first session was a training session and around 5 listener were there. I demonstrated and discussed about use of telescopes and how to find stars and Messier objects in night sky.
I created an article regarding basic astronomy principles. If you are new to this blog can follow this link so that you can get ideas about basic ideas regarding observational astronomy.
On Nov 9th 2017 I was invited to IIT, to deliver a talk about Practical astronomy to those young talented astronomy lovers who want to learn principles of observational astronomy. That day I came to know that those who participated in the session, created an astronomy club at IIT known as Nakshatra. I spent almost 5 hours with the member of Nakshatra and
I discussed with them about making the club more active and more functional doing more and more activities. I also prepared a ppt presentation using which I delivered
my talk regarding Night sky watching and practical astronomy Observation techniques. I described the difference between different optics and observational instruments available. I helped them to gather overall ideas about size and shape of celestial objects depending upon the size of instruments they use. Using images of different telescopes and some images captured by me, I helped them understand the difference between naked eye observation, Binocular observation, telescope observation and observatory Observation.
During the discussion I tried my best to encourage those beginners towards astronomy and I tried to teach them the aim and result of Observational Astronomy. I gave them idea about our universe and its vastness and our existence in this universe . There are millions of galaxies out there to be discovered. There are unlimited numbers of unsolved puzzles yet to be solved. I tried to teach them the value of Observation and its history. Also helped them to understand they must prepare themselves for the upcoming generation which will be the generation of Space technology.
Observation
After the one hour long discussion, I thought it would be a nice idea to demonstrate those students how to assemble a telescope. I took my own telescope and binocular with me and I described every section of that telescope. Then in front of them assembled the scope and asked them maintain all optical parts very carefully.
Then we all went to the roof top where a beautiful observation session conducted by those IIT students. More than 100 students were there with 2 telescopes and one Binocular to observe celestial objects. I explained them how to identify stars and constellations using software and sky maps. Though the sky was not so clear, we managed to find some celestial objects.
WE OBSERVED
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| A free night sky watching and astrophotography session organised by Big Dipper Astronomy Club last year |
Big Dipper Astronomy Club also have more than 800 members in our facebook group who are sharing lots of knowledge and idea about astronomy.
here is the link if you like to join
https://www.facebook.com/groups/190983004370399/
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| Introduciton to Messier Object Observation trough Telescope on March 19th 2017 @ IIT, Bhubaneswar |
Our first session was a training session and around 5 listener were there. I demonstrated and discussed about use of telescopes and how to find stars and Messier objects in night sky.
I created an article regarding basic astronomy principles. If you are new to this blog can follow this link so that you can get ideas about basic ideas regarding observational astronomy.
PURSUING OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
On Nov 9th 2017 I was invited to IIT, to deliver a talk about Practical astronomy to those young talented astronomy lovers who want to learn principles of observational astronomy. That day I came to know that those who participated in the session, created an astronomy club at IIT known as Nakshatra. I spent almost 5 hours with the member of Nakshatra andI discussed with them about making the club more active and more functional doing more and more activities. I also prepared a ppt presentation using which I delivered
my talk regarding Night sky watching and practical astronomy Observation techniques. I described the difference between different optics and observational instruments available. I helped them to gather overall ideas about size and shape of celestial objects depending upon the size of instruments they use. Using images of different telescopes and some images captured by me, I helped them understand the difference between naked eye observation, Binocular observation, telescope observation and observatory Observation.
During the discussion I tried my best to encourage those beginners towards astronomy and I tried to teach them the aim and result of Observational Astronomy. I gave them idea about our universe and its vastness and our existence in this universe . There are millions of galaxies out there to be discovered. There are unlimited numbers of unsolved puzzles yet to be solved. I tried to teach them the value of Observation and its history. Also helped them to understand they must prepare themselves for the upcoming generation which will be the generation of Space technology.
Observation
After the one hour long discussion, I thought it would be a nice idea to demonstrate those students how to assemble a telescope. I took my own telescope and binocular with me and I described every section of that telescope. Then in front of them assembled the scope and asked them maintain all optical parts very carefully.
Then we all went to the roof top where a beautiful observation session conducted by those IIT students. More than 100 students were there with 2 telescopes and one Binocular to observe celestial objects. I explained them how to identify stars and constellations using software and sky maps. Though the sky was not so clear, we managed to find some celestial objects.
WE OBSERVED
- Orion Nebula
- Pleiades open cluster
- Andromeda Galaxy
- Capella Star
- Orion Constellation
- Taurus Constellation
- Cassiopeia
Overall that was another successful session at IIT. Spent almost 5 hours with some finest students of India. I hope I was managed to create interest among the new commercial and better idea to those who already were present at my previous session. I within a short time interval tried my best to explain some basic ideas and information regarding cosmology.
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