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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Composite Image of Various stages of Annular Eclipse

Here is a composite of 37 images of various stages of Annular Eclipse 2010 taken from Dhanushkodi by Mr Prakash Subbanna, Vice President, ABAA. The Photos were taken through Canon 50D with 400mm lens. The parabolic motion of the Sun in the composite image is made by Mr Prakash to show only the progression of various stages of the annular eclipse, it should not be confused with the actual motion of the Sun. Please Click on the Image to see larger version.

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