Prog : 49, 09-04-2009, Radio Mirchi, Vejalpur, Ahmedabad

'Radio Mirchi' group who enjoyed the night sky for the first time.

Dear All,

In response to the unmatchable support during "100 HA" from 2-5 April 2009, we wanted to share secrets of the Solar system to all interested, working at Radio Mirchi.

We approached the program coordinator with an idea of announcing Astronomy Facts nearly ten times a day during 2-5 April. Along with this, we also asked to promote astronomy by asking astronomy related quiz and for winners, we offered special astronomy kits. The idea clicked and astronomy was on air for all 100 Hours of Astronomy!!!

During the multi-media session, all interacted in depth and had nice debates over few issues like ' How deep Sunspots are, how can a flag wave on lunar surface without atmosphere, etc'. The naked eye observation started with Sirius, Taurus, Orion, Leo and then Saturn through 8" telescope. They were all amazed to see bar like rings and then lastly all enjoyed crates and maria on the moon.

We distributed 100HA lapels to all along with Saturn bookmark.

We sincerely thanks Jigneshbhai and all radio jockeys for kind support, Ravi Gamit for single handed arrangement with photo documentation.

Summary:
1. Venue : Radio Mirchi, Vejalpur, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 09-04-2009
3. Time : 7:20 to 9:10 pm
4. Object observed : Saturn, Moon and other constellation
5. Participants : 21
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Ravi Gamit
8. Resource Persons : 1
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : No competition at station, but Radio quiz winners are mentioned in previous blogs.

Tanmaye Vyas
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