Articles tagged with: Kerala
Written By: aastrokerala on February 3, 2012
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Written By: aastrokerala on January 29, 2012
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The monthly session of AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram was conducted on 5th January at its usual venue and time. This time it was a talk lead by Dr. Ajith Prasad from M G College on 'Extraplanetary objects in the solar system'. Usually the word 'solar system' brings to our mind the sun and the eight planets around [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on April 16, 2011
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First of all, Happy Vishu to all....Lets talk some astronomy on this eve.... We all know that from Earth, Sun would appear to revolve around us. The ancient people believed Sun actually is revolving around Earth in a circular orbit. To locate sun in its orbit, they divided the 'solar orbit' around Earth, called the ecliptic, [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on March 21, 2011
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There were widely spread rumors and fear among the people over chances of natural disasters and occurrence of unusual phenomenon because of 'Super Moon effect' these days.Speculations have moved the goalposts to within 1 or 2 weeks of a supermoon to suggest a causal relationship with specific natural disasters such as the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Such a widening [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on March 4, 2011
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Written By: aastrokerala on March 4, 2011
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MARS: Mars is lost in the solar glare!
URANUS: Very low in West. The planet will be on conjunction on 21st March.
JUPITER: Getting low in the Western sky and will be paired with Mercury from March 12 to March 20.
SATURN: Rises around 9:30 pm at the month’s beginning and well placed in the sky at the [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on March 4, 2011
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March 5: New Moon
March 5/6: A day for the Messier Marathon. Locate all the Messier Objects in one night!
March 7: A very thin Waxing Crescent Moon (6% illuminated) is 8.5 degrees NE of Jupiter, very low in the West Just after Sunset
March 11: A six days old Waxing Crescent Moon is just 4.5 degrees SE [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on November 30, 2010
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Dec 1: The Moon is about 10.5 degrees W-SW of Saturn in the East before dawn
Dec 1: Mercury Greatest Elongation
Dec 2: The Moon is just 3.5 degrees West of Spica in the East before dawn
Dec 3: The Moon is 8 degrees SE of Venus in the East before dawn
Dec 5: New Moon
Dec 7: [...]
Written By: aastrokerala on October 30, 2010
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ആസ്ട്രോ കേരളയുടെ തൃശൂര് ജില്ലാ ഘടകത്തിന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തില് പ്രമുഖ ജ്യോതിശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനായിരുന്ന സുബ്രമഹ്ണ്യം ചന്ദ്രശേഖറുടെ ജന്മശതാബ്ദി ആചരണം നടത്തി.അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ ജീവിതത്തെയും സംഭാവനകളെയും കുറിച്ച് ആസ്ട്രോ തൃശൂര് ഘടകം ചെയര്മാനായ ശ്രീ.പി ആര് ചന്ദ്രമോഹന് വിദ്യാര്ഥികള്ക്കായി ക്ലാസ് നയിച്ചു.ഒക്ടോബര് 19 നു തൃശൂര് ഗവ.മോഡല് ഗേള്സ് ഹൈസ്കൂളില് വച്ചു നടന്ന പരിപാടിയില് ആസ്ട്രോ ഭാരവാഹി ശ്രീ അജയകുമാര്,സ്കൂള് ഭാരവാഹികള് തുടങ്ങിയവര് സംബന്ധിച്ചു.നിരവധി വിദ്യാര്ഥികള് പരിപാടിയില് പങ്കെടുത്തു
Written By: aastrokerala on August 3, 2010
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a new project manager: Phil Varghese, a native of Kerala, India.He came to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1971 to study physics, earned his doctorate at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore., and then worked with computer and aerospace companies. He began his work at JPL [...]
