Around the world in 80 Telescopes!
Winner of quiz on "Radio Mirchi"
Winner of quiz on "Radio Mirchi"
Winner of quiz on "Radio Mirchi"
Winner of quiz on "Radio Mirchi"
Video conferencing with amateurs at Jantar Mantar, Delhi
Video conferencing with Massimo from Canada!
The group of amateur astronomer eager for Video conference.
Explaing about the Gravitational wave observatory.
Live webcasting...
Explaining different types of telescopes.
Beautiful Orion Nebula.
Double screen for double excitement.
Poster reading by young ladies.
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Urvi Vyas with Yuri!
Stephen with Yuri!
Ravi with Yuri!
Jigar with Yuri!
Rajesh with Yuri!
Usha with Yuri!
Club entrance.
Galileo at entry.
Yuri Gagarin set up.
Poster exhibit.
Double screen set up for 80 telescope & video conference.
Hello all,
We were excited and looking forward today to screening ‘Around the world in 80 Telescopes’ at the Ellisbridge Gymkhana Club. The club had kindly allowed us the use of the conference hall from 2.30 to 11pm.
As a precautionary measure, we arranged for two laptops, two internet connections, two projectors and screens.
We decorated the conference hall with all the 100 posters on astronomy facts. Yuri’s cutout exactly in front of entrance and screened one slide show on deep sky objects while waiting for the 100hour official telecast to begin. And in the event that the 100Hours telecast faced any down times!
Eager participants were already seated by 2:30 had to wait till 2:50pm to see the first telecast of the observatory ‘Gemini’. Since the site was already experiencing telecast troubles! Live steaming of different observatories started for half an hour or so and suddenly we lost the connection. From the constant messages visible on the site we understood that the site was experiencing down time due to the unprecedented number of simultaneous viewers across the globe!
Unfortunately, many participants at our venue were disappointed with the long waits and the intermittent streaming and opted to leave. Hoping to stop the participants from leaving, we started screening a video on the birth of the universe. Again from 5:15 till 6:15 we received good streaming and were able to join the world in watching the live telecast but the screen went blank again thereafter due to technical problems at the telecast site.
In order to drum up some alternative interest, after nearly an hour or so, we were able to establish another net line and connected to Canadian Astronomers’ group for video conference - we had a good session with them exchanging our plans and achievements for celebrating IYA2009. We shared our blog: tanmayevyas.blogspot.com where we have documented our IYA efforts starting 1st Jan, 2009 and were happy to receive compliments for our efforts.
We also connected to a group of astronomers from New Delhi who took us through a live presentation at the site of our astronomical heritage – the Jan tar Mantar observatory. It was such an enthusiastic and well researched presentation delivered with great passion that all of us were impressed.
Once again, today, many winners from Radio Quiz on Astronomy came in to collect their prizes.
For today’s program we would like to thank following : Urvi Vyas, Rajesh Nath, Usha Nath, Stephen Samuel, Jigar Darji, Ravi Gamit, Shubhangbhai & Shamikbhai of Ellisbridge Gymkhana Club and other silent helpers.
Summary:
1. Venue : Ellisbridge Gymkhana Club, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad.
2. Time : 2:00 pm to 11:45 pm
3. Participants : 65
4. Prize winners : Vipul, Kunal, Diksha, Ravija & Pranali
Tanmaye Vyas.
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