International Year of Astronomy 2009

   

Activities of Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore for IYA 2009

• November 29
  “Know Your Stars” – Introduction to night sky in collaboration with ABAA

• November 27 – 29,
  Three day workshop on “Universe in Class room” for all age groups

• November  19,
  20^th Anniversary celebrations – release of DVD “Eyes on the Sky” with Kannada subtitles followed by sessions with invited teachers on class room activities for teaching astronomy

• November 17-18,
  Workshop for students on astronomy with an emphasis on meteor observations

• November  15,
  Screening of the movie “Spaceship Earth”

• November 13,
  Special lecture by Prof Peter Biermann on “Dark Matter and Black holes in the Universe”  in association with Alexander von Hambolt Association of Bangalore

• November 9 -10
  Visit to the VB Observatory by REAP students – second batch

•  November  8,
  “Know You Stars” Introduction to the night sky

•  November 6,
   Interactive sessions with the college lecturers from various parts of the State

• October 31  – November 1
   Visit to the VBO (Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur) by REAP students in collaboration with IIA

• Interactive session with teachers of RV Teachers’ College

•  October 22 - 23
  Workshop in astronomy for teachers

• October 23, 24 and 25
   “Galilean nights”  in collaboration with ABAA

• October 18
   Screening of the movie “The inner planets”

• October 10
  “Know Your Stars -  Introduction to the night sky in collaboration with BAS

• October 9
  Interaction with students of Parikrama

• October 4,   
  Special lecture on “Astronomy behind festivals” by Prof R K Kochhar
  “Know your stars” – introduction to night sky with ABAA

• October 3    
  Interaction with physics lecturers of PU colleges on experiments for undergraduates

• September 25          
  Launch of the new sky theatre show “Wonder World of Stars”
  Special lecture on “Astronomical aspects of temple architecture” at the Into the Future with Knowledge from Our Past, seminar for college students organized at Jain college.

• September 22          
  Interaction with chemistry lecturers of PU colleges on experiments for undergraduates

• September 16          
  Special workshop of future activities of IYA2009 in collaboration with Karnataka Science and Technology Academy for various science centre representatives from Karnataka

• September 15          
  Lecture on “Life outside earth” at SJB Institute of Technology

• September 13          
  Conclusion of telescope making workshop in collaboration with ABAA

• September 12          
  “Know your stars” – introduction to night sky in collaboration with BAS

• September 5            
  Discussion meeting at Select Book House on Indian Astronomy

• August 28-30 Exhibition “Science in Action – Astronomy” – About 26 models / experiments from different schools were displayed. The fear of Swine flu was responsible for a decrease in the number of visiting schools (about 25) with an average of 200 students.  Participation by parents with children was very impressive.  (List of experiments)

• August 6,7 workshop for High School teachers on astronomy and astrophysics

• July 22 Arrangements were made for showing the eclipsed sun by projection using telescopes

• 22nd July Viwing arrangements for the solar eclips

• 17th July workshop on "Electro magnetic radiation" for high school teachers

• 12th July Special Workshop on Astronomy for school children 

• 11th July Special lecture on "Eclipses" at Jagadish science Center

• 11th July Know Your stars - Introsuction to night sky in collaboration with BAS

• 10th July Discussion meeting on models for astronomy with high school teachers

• 9th July workshop on Circular motion and Gravitation for school teachers

• 5th July Know Your stars - Introduction to night sky

• 29th June Special lecture on "Roots of Science in astronomy" Jagadish Science Center

• 13-14 June workshop on "Asteroids, comets and meteors" in collaboration with BAS

• 6th June Know Your stars - Introduction to night sky

• April 3 - May 20      Summer Course on "Patterns" covering all the patterns in the universe from microorganisms to the large scale structure of galaxies - lectures, demonstrations, movies, hands on activities - for school children

• May 24  "Know Your Stars" Introduction to night sky in collaboration with ABAA

• May 20 - 30     "From web of life to the Universe" summer programme for college students with lectures on Solar Terrestrial relationships, stellar evolution, compact stars, the world of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, interstellar matter, space astronomy and Chandrayaan, Royal Society Christmas Lecture Series, and hands on activities.

• May 16 Commencement of Ten- weekends course “Practical astronomy for beginners” with ABAA

• May 9 Know Your Stars – introduction to the night sky lecture demo followed by telescope viewing with BAS

• May 3 Know Your Stars – introduction to the night sky lecture demo followed by telescope viewing

• Apr 28 -30 Workshop “Universe in Class room” for children

• Apr 26 Know Your Stars – introduction to the night sky lecture demo followed by telescope viewing with ABAA

• Apr 19 Movie “International Space Station”

• Apr 12 Lecture for Summer school children from Bangalore Science Forum

• Apr 11 Know Your Stars – introduction to the night sky lecture demo followed by telescope viewing with BAS

• Apr 5 Know Your Stars – introduction to the night sky lecture demo followed by telescope viewing

• Apr 1-3 workshop for Children “Universe in classroom”

 

• Celebrating Equinox
  Special session of Know Your stars on 22nd March in collaboration with ABAA

• Pleiades Occultation
  The beautiful sight of Pleiades Occultation was used aptly to create interest among laypersons. Amateurs from ABAA showed the event at two locations Jagadish Science Center, in Jayanagar and Sri Vani School at Rajajainagar

• Universe in the classroom
  3 day workshop  loaded with activities for school Children Apirl 1-3

• 100 hours of astronomy
  Spread to beyond Bangalore with the help of amateurs - both ABAA and BAS
   

"100hours of astronomy" - sky-watch for everyone


"Universe in the class room" workshop for school children

 

Preliminary workshop  July 12, 2008

• To motivate the enthusiasts towards a large scale activity especially about the 100 hours program suggested by IAU

• To discuss the modalities of coordinated observations

Lectures

• “Total Solar Eclipse 2009” Dipankar Bannerjee

• “The charm of the night sky” T P Prabhu

Representatives from all over Karnataka participated.

 

Second preliminary workshop November 29-30, 2008

Aimed at identifying  the interesting events of 2009 to arrange public outreach events

Lectures

• “Occultations ; Lunar and more…” B S Shylaja

• “Simple tools for astrophotography” – Dilip Kumar

• “Jantar – Mantar discussion and hands on activities” – V S S Shastry

About 20 amateurs and school teachers and about 15 school children from Bangalore participated

 

Planned activities

• Planetarium programs – conventional and of short duration

• Science in action an exhibition of demonstration of experiments and models related to astronomy

• Special lectures on astrophysics, astronomy and history of astronomy

• 10 day orientation workshops for school and college students during April, May 2009

• 3 day workshops for all interested in night sky watch

• 1 day workshops for teachers especially from outside Bangalore

• Exhibition of panels on different themes throughout the year

• Publication of books both in English and Kannada
  and many more………………………..

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