ABAA Outreach

ABAA had been to Neev - Indiranagar to introduce kids to astronomy and show them Venus and Moon through the telescope. The talk soon converted into a interactive session with kids asking and sharing their understanding of astronomy. Its amazing how much kids know. After the talk kids enjoyed the view of Venus and Moon through the telescope. 

ABAA conducts outreach programs from time to time in schools and colleges to create awareness and help students understanding Astronomy and Telescopes better.

Here are few photos we want to share with you of the session.

ABAA member Bharath giving the talk.

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ABAA outreach program

ABAA conducted an outreach program at Nellorepura Kannada School on 12th Nov. This is one of the schools adapted by company Broadcom India and it is called Project Lotus, as part of Corporate Social Responsibility effort of the company. Amrutha invited ABAA to give a talk on basic astronomy to the school kids.

ABAA thanks Project Lotus volunteers Naga Chandra, Sajith, Sundar and Amrutha for their effort and help in arranging the talk to introduce astronomy to kids. All of Project Lotus volunteers work for Broadcom India.

The talk was given by Mr. Madhava T S, Treasurer/Jt Secretary of ABAA. Madhava took the kids on a trip to all the planets through slides explaining the wonders of the planets and their moons.

Here are some Photos from the session

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New light for JYOTHI KENDRIYA VIDYALA telescope by Anil, ABAA.

As we all know from the last post, Anil, member of ABAA, got the JYOTHI KENDRIYA VIDYALA telescope back to observing state and his work on the images of Annular eclipse 2010. He has completely redesigned the telescope with lots of innovation. Here is the link to his blog where you can read in detail the process involved in rebuilding the JYOTHI KENDRIYA VIDYALA telescope. You can also read about his 4" Refractor.

You can goto Anil's blog by clicking here. Great Work Anil.

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ABAA outreach at JYOTHI KENDRIYA VIDYALA

ABAA. Conducted the outreach program at JYOTHI KENDRIYA VIDYALA, Kanakapura road, Bangalore on the 23rd of Jan. The program was aimed at high school students. Mr Prakash Subbanna gave the introduction and it was followed by astronomy talk by Chandrashekar G.

After the talk students got see the Moon, Jupiter, Mars, open clusters through telescopes of ABAA members and also from JKV's telescope. ABAA would like to thank JKV's physics teacher Miss. Nagrathna for organizing the session.

The telescope at JKV was reconditioned and modified by Anil. The school can now use it show the celestial bodies to the students. ABAA always looks forward for such collaboration with Schools and Colleges.

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COORG SKY SHOW

The Sky show at Field Marshal Cariappa College, Madikeri, on 29th and 30th December 2009 was mixed bag. It was an event managed by TEAM ABAA, with lecture by Chandrashekar, on Guide to night sky as a part of International inter-disciplinary conference of Astronomy.

Weather god did not permit us to do the show on day one. In fact it was raining...!!!

Day 2 was better with sky clearing up for about 2 hours after Sunset and we were able to show 300+ public the Moon & Jupiter.

People and the organizers were really pleased at the end of the show and have promised to have more sky shows in co ordination with ABAA.

2 telescopes were used, 8 inch Schmidt-Cassegrain and 4 inch refractor.

All in all a satisfactory outreach to the public of Madikeri.

TEAM ABAA: prakash subbanna, chandrashekar, anil and Mani.

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ABAA outreach at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya

What more can one ask for? A field filled with kids lined up to take a glimpse at the biggest planet in the solar system, bursting with energy, waiting in long lines and in the cold evening, to see the sparkle in their eyes after seeing the Giant planet, the questions on the bands on Jupiter, the moons, the solar system. Volunteers of ABAA and teachers answering all the questions and explaining the concepts, with equal enthusiasm and energy, kid after kid, questions after questions.

This was the atmosphere at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dodballapur, where ABAA conducted the outreach program on December 11th, Friday.

Telescopes were setup and were aimed at Jupiter, 400 students lined up and patiently waited for their turn, one by one they saw the Giant planet and were amazed at the sight. Students enjoyed the bands on the planet and the four moons of Jupiter. After observing the planet the students had million questions, these were answered by the volunteers and teachers present there.

Later, when all the students finished observing Jupiter, teachers observed through the telescopes and a very good interactive session took place on telescopes and astronomy.

If there is anything more one could ask for, is....more of these kinds of programs....

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