TaareWiki | Site / Student Projects in Astronomy

This page contains some reports of student projects in astronomy, undertaken since the beginning of 2009. There are also many interesting projects undertaken by students between 1999-2009, which will also be slowly added to the site. All these projects had active support and guidance from the Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi.

This section of the wiki aims to be of help also to students looking for new projects to do. Discussion and learning pages in the existing projects will be found useful. There are also some overall tutorials prepared by astronomers/scientists and educators which would be useful. More Tutorials will be added soon.

(An alert for all students : Please back up and keep a copy of all material that you add to the wiki, as a safe backup, as this is a public wiki and material could be lost from the wiki pages)

Tutorials

Student Projects

Measurement of lunar brightness changes during a penumbral eclipse, using amateur astrophotographs Project completed by Anurag Garg
Determining speed of rotation of Sun and investigating morphology of sunspots Project completed by Combodge Bhist and Siddharth Rana, of NIT, Surathkal
Sunspot image processing Siddarth Singh and Vinay Ambat, Delhi Technological University
Project on masonary errors of the Ram Yantra Being done currently by Megha Rajoria and Sneh Kesari
Amateur radio telescope instrumentation Tushar Sharma, MSIT, GGSIP University, Delhi
DSLR Camera imaging for sky brightness measurements
Radio Telescope making Charitarth Vyas, NIT Surat
Radio Telescope at DTU Umesh Agarwal and Rahul Pokriyal, DTU
IIT Delhi Astronomy Club Activities
Project on pulsars by Saloni Bhatiani, Venkateswara college
Measurement of relative angular diameters of the Sun and the Moon during the January 15th annular solar eclipse by VSSC Central School, Thiruvananthapuram
St. Peter's College, Agra Astro Club Activities
Sanskriti School Physics Club

Student projects from 1999-2009

Student projects during CC