Its the eclipse season again. The longest total solar eclipse of the century is on 22nd of July. Citizens of India will get a first hand view of this spectacular phenomenon as the path of total solar eclipse (or totality as it is called) passes right through the breadth of India. Starting from the western… [Read more…]
April 18, 2009
If not in real life, I’m sure everyone has seen shooting stars at least in movies. They are spectacular streaks of light that seem to arise from almost nowhere, travel across a part of the sky for a second or at most a few and then, just disappear. To an absolute beginner, the name “shooting… [Read more…]
December 2, 2008
A picture I took from Hyderabad on 1st Dec 2008. It was quite late when I managed to get my hands on one of my colleague’s regular hand held Fujifilm Finepix camera which is a 6.3 Megapixel camera. Unfortunately I got the right settings for a picture like this very late and by… [Read more…]
March 12, 2008
Some myths start off as speculation and grow completely out of hand. This one seems right up that ally. And not just students, but many adults also think that the Great Wall of China is visible from the Moon. There have also been claims that it is the only man made structure visible from space.… [Read more…]
December 25, 2007
Ask a small child about to enter kindergarten whether the Sun moves and he will say yes. Ask the same question to a young student who has been given some knowledge of astronomy and he will proudly claim that while the Sun is stationary, it is the Earth that moves around it. Ironic as it… [Read more…]
November 24, 2007
How many of us have noticed the Moon to appear larger when it is rising? Keep a track of the Moon’s phase and the next time there is a full Moon, try to observe it just after it rises and then again a few hours later when it is high up in the sky. Does… [Read more…]
Nikhil Pawar
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June 22, 2009
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