{"id":600,"date":"2012-05-20T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.neependra.net\/?p=600"},"modified":"2012-05-20T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T11:36:41","slug":"star-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neependra.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/20\/star-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Saurya-Mandal ki sair (Star-Party)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I attended the star party organized by Jyotirvidya Parisanstha<\/a>, Pune.JVP organizes an over-night star party outside the city of Pune around 30 km from the city glow.Program contains necked eye star gazing, telescopic viewing of moon, planets, nebulae, galaxies,slide shows; astro-games, etc.<\/p>\n

I came to know about this from our Askshar Bharati group that we are invited to join it with\u00a0some fee. From AB group around 30 members attended it. I went with my wife and one of her friend.\u00a0There were around 80 participants other than our group. Most of them were kids.<\/p>\n

The Party was organized at Pirangut, which is around 30 KMs from Pune. We reached there around8 PM and first thing we saw was Venus from the telescope which was looking like crescent Moon.<\/p>\n

Then one of the member from JVP showed us different constellations like Ursa Majo<\/a>r, Ursa Minor<\/a>, Gemini<\/a>,Leo<\/a>, Libra<\/a>\u00a0,Scorpio<\/a>; Stars like Pole-Star,Svati (nakshatra),Chitra and Planets like \u00a0Saturn<\/a>, Mars,Venus etc from naked eyes. We were amazed to see the Saturn from the\u00a0telescope. The outer rings of Saturn<\/a> were clearly visible.That was a magnificent view , must watch.<\/p>\n

We then had the break for Dinner. In between JVP team installed more telescopes; from which we\u00a0saw Mars<\/a> and other clusters of stars.<\/p>\n

Then we were shown few videos and a demo of Stellarium<\/a> software. Stellarium is a free open
\nsource planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see
\nwith the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.<\/p>\n

I was very happy see such open-source software.<\/p>\n

After this we had another session in which instructor showed us Milky way<\/a> and other objects.
\nIt was 2 AM by than. I then slept for 2 hours and after I woke up I saw kids were playing\u00a0Antakshari based on solar objects. Its is really a great way of learning.<\/p>\n

By 5 AM we left the place and reached Pune by 5:45 AM.<\/p>\n

Sessions like these are great way of learning about our Solar-System for everyone; especially for Kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I attended the star party organized by Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Pune.JVP organizes an over-night star party outside the city of Pune around 30 km from the city glow.Program contains necked eye star gazing, telescopic viewing of moon, planets, nebulae, galaxies,slide shows; astro-games, etc. I came to know about this from our Askshar Bharati group that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[56,89,106],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aksharbharati","tag-fun","tag-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t