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Written By: aastrokerala on February 10, 2010 No Comment
Outreach Activities by AASTRO Kozhikkode gains mass attention

Kozhikkode : AASTRO Kozhikkode Team is in a busy schedule conducting a series of astronomy popularisation programmes in various parts of the district.AASTRO district fractionconducted more than half a dozen programmes with in two weeks after its formation.Some of them include Skywatching session in Providence Womens College,Elathur CMS Girls High school and so on…

Written By: aastrokerala on February 10, 2010 No Comment
Mercury in Conjunction with the Moon

On 12th February 2010, just before sunrise, you will see something
fantastic at the eastern horizon. You will see Mercury very close to the
Moon. They will be in Conjunction.Conjunction is a term normally used in positional astronomy.It means that as seen from same place,say earth, two celestial bodies appear near one another in the sky.The event also known [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on February 10, 2010 No Comment
AASTRO Kollam chapter is now all set for action.

Kottarakkara,Feb.09 : AASTRO Kollam district chapter is now ready for its activities throughout the district after its first meeting at DIET Kottarakkara on Feb 09th.The core committee for its activities formed in the meeting in which around 50 members participated representing various Colleges,Schools,SSA,KSSP and other bodies in the district.

AASTRO KOllam Chapter Meet

AASTRO will soon have [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on February 10, 2010 No Comment
Chandrayaan’s M3 discovers new lunar rock type

The Moon Minerology Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1, which famously discovered the presence of water and hydroxyl molecules on the lunar surface material last year, has now identified a new lunar rock type on the far side of the moon. The M3 is a NASA instrument. This was reported here on Monday by Carle Pieters of [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on February 1, 2010 No Comment
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS OF INTEREST IN FEBRUARY 2010

Sky Map for February 2010

Feb 3: A Waning Gibbous Moon (81%) stands 8 degrees South of Saturn at 4:00am.

Feb 4: A Wining Gibbous Moon (71%) stands 5.3 degrees SW of Spica at 3:00am.
Feb 5: Mars will be 3 degrees North of the Beehive Cluster (M44).
Feb 6: Last Quarter Moon.
Feb 8: A [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on January 26, 2010 No Comment
Mars in a Nutshell

Mars swings to within 99 million kilometers of our fair planet this week, making its closest approach until 2012. Get your telescope out, or simply look up and gaze at the steady orange-red glow of the Red Planet. It rises in the east in the constellation Cancer just after sunset. You can’t miss it. [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on January 24, 2010 No Comment
Annular Solar Eclipse photographs by German Eclipse Chasers

Baily's beads,photographed by Tobias kamschulte from Thiruvananathapuram,Kerala

Stunning photographs by Tobias Kampschulte and other German Eclipse Chasers who were there at Thiruvananthapuram with AASTRO  for the ASE watch can be viewed from the link :’ http://astro-digital.de/fotos/rsf2010/Thumbnails.html .

Written By: aastrokerala on January 22, 2010 No Comment
Pioneer of the Southern Skies

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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille(1713-1762),French astronomer

In the mid-18th century, in a time before Messier and the Herschels, the humble and diligent Lacaille,a French Astronomer, cataloged more stars than all other astronomers of his era combined, and assigned names and places for southern constellations still in use today.

Born in 1713, the young Lacaille’s was left [...]

Written By: aastrokerala on January 22, 2010 No Comment

Jan 15th – Annular Solar Eclipse

Jan 27th -Closest Approach of Mars

Jan 30th – Mars at Opposition

Jan 30th – Biggest Full Moon at Perigee

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Written By: aastrokerala on January 22, 2010 One Comment
Brightest and Biggest Moon in 2010

Moon in Perigee

Just after turning Sun into a ring of fire on 15th January as new moon,
the coming full moon on 30th January night has something in store for
all of us. It will not only shine brighter but will appear bigger as
compared to other full moons during this year. To put it in [...]

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