International Year of Astronomy 2009 India National Node

@ Bangalore
Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education.
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 24 "Know Your Stars" Introduction to night sky incollaboration with ABAA
Apr 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
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@ Delhi
TSE 22 July
Preparatory Workshops
Mar 28 -29
Apr 18 -19
The Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, in collaboration with S.P.A.C.E. (Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators) organising a number of preparatory workshops for school/college students and general interested public, for the July 22 2009 Total Solar eclipse.
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@ Thiruvananthapuram
Apr 1 - 2 IYA 2009 Celebrations at Dept of Physics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, VSSC Campus, ISRO Thumba Post, Thiruvananthapuram. Lectures, interactive sessions, sky watch, mini workshops on telescope making and spectroscopy, quiz, poster and video session
Speakers Prof Jayant V Narlikar, Dr. P Sreekumar, Arvind Paranjpye & V Rajashekhar.
Coordinated by Dr Anandmayee Tej
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@ Bangalore
Mar 22 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Launch of activities of ABAA for IYA with video presentation on telescope making, display of telescopes and demonstration lecture Know your stars _ introduction to night sky
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@ Kanpur (panki)
Mar 20 Sun Earth Day - three groups participated in measuring diameter of the earth using he method of Eratosthennes. O N Shukla guided the students and Deepak Sharma orgainized the event..
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@ Khanpur, Ahmedabad
March 17 Observations of crescent Venus and slide show by Tanmaye Vyas for the children at "Observations Home" a place for children have either committed some crime or beggars who were caught by police from cross roads.
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@ Hyderabad
Mar 16- 17 Two day workshop on the Celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA) 2009 was organized by Dept of Astronomy, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
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@ Karmala, Solapur
Mar 7 Sky Viewing programme and slide show on astronomy was arrangred by Dinesh S Nishang, Bhaskaracharya Astronomy Research Centre, Ahmednagar, around 2000 people participated.

@ Bangalore
Jan 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Know your stars - introduction to night sky, "Ask an astronomer" session and viewing through telescopes in collaboration with BAS
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@ Bangalore
Mar 1 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Know your stars - introduction to night sky, demonstrations, lecture and telescope viewing..
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@ Pune
Feb 23 - From Galileo to Black Holes
by Tomaso Belloni, (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Astronomical Observatory of Brera, Italy) joint orgainzed by Embassy of Italy and IUCAA.

@ Bangalore
Feb 17 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Pro-Am collaboration - meeting.
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@ Bangalore
Feb 1 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Know your stars - introduction to night sky, demonstrations, lecture and telescope viewing..
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@ Bangalore
Jan 23 - 26 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education - Science in Action - an exhibition of dynamic astronomy models.
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@ Bangalore
Jan 4 Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore Association for Science Education -. Know your stars - introduction to night sky.
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The 100 Hours of Astronomy, 2-5 April
Cornerstone Project

Astronomy Club-IIT Kanpur
1. Observation Sessions (day/night) open for school students 9th to 12th grade.
2. Lecture series by prominent personalities from observatories/institutions all across India.
3. Screening of Documentaries.
4. Astronomical Quiz.

District Science Club - Meerut
1.earth experiment on 3,4 th aprill 09.
2. science film in villege.
3. sky watching
Coordinator - Deepak Sharma
http://meerut.eratosnoon.free.fr

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Himalayan Chandra Telescope (Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle ) is participating in 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' programme.

SPACE (Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators) - at Jantar Mantar , New Delhi from 2nd to 5th April 2009 (sunrise to 11:00 p.m. everyday).
Webcast schedule will be put up on SPACE website (www.space-india.org) two days before the event.
1. Educating people about the working of various Jantar Mantar Instruments such as Ram Yantra, Samrat Yantra, Misra Yantra and Jai Prakash Yantra. During day as well as evening time (up to 11:00 PM)
2. Live interactive webcast explaining the working of Jantar Mantar instruments for international community. People from around the world will be able to view this webcast and see the mysteries of Jantar Mantar being unraveled by our expert educators.
3 Sidewalk Astronomy: Telescopic observations of Moon and Saturn during evening and night time.
4. Safe Solar Observation.
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