Inaugural Session
Chair : Prof. Mridula Mukherjee
Inaugural Address 10:00-10:15 AM Prof. Yashpal
Key Note Address 10:15 - 10:45 AM Prof. Tushar Prabhu, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
The spirit of Astronomers Without Borders 10:45-10:55 Mike Simmons, President Astronomers without Borders, Co-Chair, 100 Hours of Astronomy, Cornerstone Project for the International Year of Astronomy
The spirit of "The World at Night" 10:55-11:00 Babak Tafreshi, Director, The World at Night, Special Project of the International Year of Astronomy
Young Speaker reacting to the session : Megha Rajoria, Moti Lal Nehru College
Tea 11:00-11:15 AM
The timings are inclusive of 5 minutes for discussions
Nature is inexhaustible
Chair : Prof. Tushar Prabhu
From Stars to Quasars 11:15-11:50 Prof. Patrick Das Gupta, Delhi University
The Active Sun 11:50-12:15 PM Prof. Wahabuddin, Aryabhatta Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital
Young Speaker reacting to the session : Rohan Mittal, Indore University
Landscape Astrophotography
Chair : Mike Simmons
Landscape Astrophotography 12:15-1:00 Babak Tafreshi, Director, The World at Night
Basic Astrophotography and Star Trails 1:00-1:20 C.B. Devgun, President, S.P.A.C.E.
Young Speaker reacting to the session : Raghu Kalra Ryan International School
Lunch 1:20-2:10 PM
The Techniques
Chair : Babak Tafreshi
Polar alignment 2:10-2:30 PM Vikrant Narang, S.P.A.C.E.
Still Camera/piggy back/prime focus/afocal/eye piece projection issues 2:30-3:00 PM Ajay Talwar, Head, Instrumentation and Observations, S.P.A.C.E.
Digital astrophotography: with webcams,SLR and CCD cameras 3:00-3:20 Stephan Seip, Stuttgart, Germany
Young Speaker reacting to the session Ashmeet Singh Birla Vidya Niketan
Tea 3:20-3:30 PM
Imaging and Processing
Chair : Dr. Anuj Sinha
Imaging the Sun 3:30-4:00 PM Gernot Meiser, Saarluis, Germany
Imaging the planets 4:00-4:10 PM Ajay Talwar
Aspects of Image Processing 4:10-4:30 PM Stephan Seip, Germany
Deep Sky Astrophotography 4:30-5:10 Dr. Suresh Mohan, Chennai
Special Discussion Planned activities for the International Year of Astronomy, by the NCSTC 5:10 : 5:30 PM Ujjwala Tirkey, NCSTC
Young Speaker reacting to the session Thiru Senthil
Afternoon sessions
Astronomy with Cameras
Chair : Prof. Tushar Prabhu
CCD photometry Dr. Padmakar Parihar 11:00-11:45
Science with webcam imaging Stephan Seip 11:45-12:30
Young Speaker reacting to the session Nikhil Pawar
Lunch 12:30 - 1:30
Astronomy with small apertures
Celestial Variability 2:00-2:30 Dr. Santosh Joshi, Aryabhatta Institute of Observational Sciences, Nainital
Possible Science with a B/W CCD and small telescopes 2:30-3:00 Prof. S.K. Pandey, Pt. Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur
Comet Imaging and Science 3:00- 3:30 Pawan Chakravarty, IIIT, Allahabad
Young Speaker reacting to the session Tushar Gupta
Tea 4:00-4:15
Start for Nuh at 4:30
Overnight Observations at Nuh
Demonstration of Landscape Astrophotography by Babak Tafreshi, Gernot Meiser and C.B. Devgun
Demonstration of Planetary Imaging by Stephan Seip, Ajay Talwar, Ashmeet, Avnish and S. Venkatesh
Webcam imaging of Jupiter - in participant groups, with help from volunteers
The Sky by Amar Sharma
Polar alignment issues demonstrated by Ajay Talwar, Vikrant Narang and Dr. Suresh Mohan
Deepsky Imaging by Dr. Suresh Mohan
Observations by participants with their own cameras, using barndoor mounts that will be provided
Afternoon Sessions
Astronomy with archives
Multiwavelength astronomy with spacecraft archives 2:00-2:30 Jayant Murthy, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore
Student projects with HST and UMASS data 3:00-3:30 Priya Hassan, Osmania University
Young Speaker reacting to the session Avnish
Earth, its atmosphere and Light Pollution Concerns
Extinction, sky background and seeing by Padmakar Parihar 3:45-4:15
World wide efforts towards Light Pollution Measurements by Mike Simmons 4:15-4:45
Digital Camera images of the sky for measuring light pollution Anurag Garg 4:45-5:15
Measuring Light pollution "project dark skies" - A student's project by C B Devgun 5:15-5:35
Young Speaker reacting to the session Gunjan Bansal
Public Events
Taare Sadak Par
A little skygazing from a planetarium sky theatre and public discussion on light pollution concerns 5:30 PM
Tea 6:30 PM
Laakhon Taare Aasmaan Par 7:00 - 9:00 PM
A musical evening with the few wan stars still visible from central Delhi - in the backlawns of the Teen Murti House
Laakhon taare aasmaan par, ek magar dhoondhe na mila ...
The last day of the workshop is mainly meant for the participants to discuss possible long term projects that they could undertake, with some guidance through the online group interaction, which will include all the speakers and will also have other members from all over the world, who could help in this.
There will be some presentations before the open discussions by participants, which will be mainly related to possible small celestial science with moderate apertures and amateur imaging
Presentations
Timings are inclusive of 5 minutes for discussions
Chair : Dr. Priya Hasan
Small Science with webcam imaging 10:00-10:20 Stepham Seip, Germany
Celestial Variability 10:20-11:00 Dr. Santosh Joshi, ARIES, Nainital
Variable star photometry 11:-00-11:20 Dr. Kurtadikar
CCD Photometry projects for students 11:20-11:40 Sukanto Deb, Delhi University
Tea: 11:40-11:50
Chair: Prof. Jayant Murthy
Vigyan Prasar activities and projects for the International Year of Astronomy 11:50-12:15 Arvind Ranade, Vigyan Prasar
(Open Discussions (preliminary) - the open discussion session is actually post lunch, but, this segment is for participants who are leaving early )
Nukkad Natak - Taare Sadak Par - a street play on light pollution awareness 12:30-12:45
Measuring Light pollution "project dark skies" by C B Devgun 12:45-1:00
Lunch 1:00-2:00
Project Discussions
These will be open discussions which the participants could use as a sounding board for thinking of possible observing/imaging/analysis/astronomy awareness/inter disciplinary connections/just-plain-fun projects to undertake in the coming months
Chair : Mike Simmons, Astronomers without Borders
Star Peace at the borders Irene Shivaei, from Iran
Nepal Astronomical Society
Bangalore Astronomical Society
Gujrat Amateur Astronomers - Bhuj, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Veraval, Surat
Goa amateur astronomy activities
TANASTRO from Chennai
All other open discussions :-)
On the beginning of our year long (and more) of family interactions and projects
Thank You,
Prof. Yashpal, Prof. Tushar Prabhu, Ajay Talwar, CB Devgun, Vikrant Narang, Raghu, Nikhil, Megha, Mayank, Ashmeet and everyone
All the staff of Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
All the speakers and all the participants who have come from such widely separated locations
S.P.A.C.E. and the wonderful experience of the Nuh observations
TWAN and its inspiration
National Bal Bhavan and in particular, Asha Bhattacharjee, Aswini, Neha and her music group
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Aryabhata Institute of Observational Sciences
Vigyan Prasar
National Council of Science Technology and Communication
And the spirit of Astronomers without Borders