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Watching the Sky from Antarctica
This is a Guest Post by Dr. S.V. Narasimhan from Virajpet about his adventures in Antarctica and his experience while sky-watching in the continent. – PAAC Team I have never seen any other countries other than India. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t have a desire to visit other countries. Once, I had visited Singapore... Continue Reading
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Sky Watch at Al- Ihsan Residential School,Mulur
PAAC was invited to inaugurate the science club and staff members of the Physics dept. to organize the Sky Watch program at Al- Ihsan Residential School through PAAC, at Mulur on 18th March 2021. Mr. Atul Bhat and Ms. Meghana J V, from the department of Physics were invited as resource persons for the program... Continue Reading
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Sky-Watch at SVS English Medium School, Katpadi
PAAC was invited to organize the Sky-Watch program at SVS English Medium School through PAAC , at Katpadi on 16th February 2021. Mr. Atul bhat and Ms. Meghana J V, from the department of Physics were invited as resource persons for the program and Chyawan Hegde , Mohammed Hashim from II nd B.Sc also accompanied... Continue Reading
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The Great Conjunction – Watched and Streamed from PPC
The Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was witnessed by hundreds at Poornaprajna College on Monday 21st December 2020. The two planets were in conjunction after 20 years and would not be visible for another 20 years. However to see them so close to each other, in a single telescopic view, one would have to... Continue Reading
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Sky watch at Bhairumbe
Sri Sharadamba High school at Bhairumbe, Sirsi recently procured 16″ reflector telescope with a GOTO tracker along with other astronomy equipment. A long-time associate of PAAC, they invited us to organize a Sky-Watch program there, under the guidance of Dr. A. P. Bhat. The sky watch was organized on the evening of 17th November 2020... Continue Reading