Planetarium Public Lectures

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%center% '''Gravity Defied : From potato asteroids to magnetised neutron stars'''

Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, is organising a talk in the sky theater of the planetarium titled "Gravity Defied : From potato asteroids to magnetised neutron stars" by Dr. Sushan Konar, National Center for Radio Astrophysics, Pune. The talk will be held in the morning of the 21st of April 2017.

You may send 10-15 students from your school for participation, after registering for the same, by sending an e-mail to nehruplanetarium@gmail.com

Registrations close on the 18th of April or when the sky theater capacity is full, whichever is earlier.

The Program:

Reporting Time : 9:15 AM
Viewing a planetarium show 9:30 - 10:30 AM
Talk on "Gravity Defied" - 10:30 - 11:30 AM

'''The recorded lecture in dome format will be made available for viewing by students and others interested very shortly. In addition, dome masters of the recorded lectures will be made available which can be used by any planetarium with a digital projection system'''


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%center% '''All are invited'''

%center% '''Enquiries : 23014504, 23012994, nehruplanetarium@gmail.com'''

'''The recorded lecture in dome format will be made available for viewing by students and others interested very shortly. In addition, dome masters of the recorded lectures will be made available which can be used by any planetarium with a digital projection system'''

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%center% '''Enquiries : 23014504, 23012994, nehruplanetarium@gmail.com'''

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%center% '''Presents a Lecture on'''
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%center% [+++ '''Optical Astronomy in India''' +++]
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%center% '''Dr. Prof. Tushar Prabhu'''
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%center% '''Professor in charge, Indian Astronomical Observatory'''

%center% '''Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore'''

%center% '''At 5:00 PM, on the 24th of October 2010'''

%center% '''At the Nehru Planetarium'''

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%center% [+ '''Optical Astronomy in India''' +]

%center% [+ '''Astronomy of Temple Architecture''' +]

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%center% '''Dr. B. S. Shylaja'''

%center% '''Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore'''

%center% '''At 4:00 PM, on the 8th of April 2010'''

%center% '''At the seminar room of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library'''

The image shown above is a print of an 18th century watercolour made by Lt. James Hunter. Some of the structures in this watercolour can stilll be identified in the Gavi Gangadharesvara temple at Bangalore.

Almost every temple, mosque and other religious structure in India is likely to be replete with constructions reflecting a basic understanding of positional astronomy and its relation to geography. Very little field work has actually been done in this area, in India, and explorations in this direction are likely to yield many interesting results.

Konark, is well known as a Sun temple. However, the details of the various possible alignments of the temple, wit respect to the annual motion of the Sun, are never talked about.

There are other Sun temples and some Zodiac temples, where positional astronomy related alignments would certainly exist.

There is a wealth of exciting information of this kind waiting to be studied thoroughly, in every Indian corner.

Coming to a specific example, there is the Gavi Gangadharesvara temple at Bangalore. Dr. B.S. Shylaja, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, has identified alignments and temple traditions which are related to the winter solstice, in some of the pillar structures of this temple. She has also done other interesting field work in the area of Indian Archeoastronomy.

Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, is organising a talk by Dr. Shylaja, at 4 PM on the 8th of April, at the Seminar room of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

The image shown above is a print of an 18th century watercolour made by Lt. James Hunter. Some of the structures in this watercolour can stilll be identified in the Gavi Gangadharesvara temple at Bangalore. Dr. B.S. Shylaja, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, has identified alignments and temple traditions which are related to the winter solstice, in some of the pillar structures of this temple.

Almost every temple, mosque and other religious structures in India are likely to be replete with constructions reflecting a basic understanding of positional astronomy and its relation to geography. Field work in this area of archeoastronomy, in India, is likely to yield many interesting results.

Almost every temple, mosque and other religious structures in India are likely to be replete with constructions reflecting a basic understanding of positional astronomy and its relation to geography. Very Field work in this area of archeoastronomy, in India, is likely to yield many interesting results.

%center% '''All are invited'''

Almost every temple and mosque and other religious structures in India are likely to be replete with constructions reflecting a basic understanding of positional astronomy and its relation to geography. Very Field work in this area of archeoastronomy, in India, is likely to yield many interesting results.

The image shown above is a print of an 18th century watercolour made by Lt. James Hunter. SOme of the structures in this watercolour can stilll be identified in the Gavi Gangadharesvara temple at Bangalore. Dr. B.S. Shylaja, Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore, has identified alignments and temple traditions which are related to the winter solstice, in some of the pillar structures of this temple.

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%center% '''Nehru Planetarium'''

%center% '''Nehru Memorial Museum and Library'''

%center% '''At 4:00 PM, on the 8th of April 2010
At the seminar room of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library'''