Outreach

I got the opportunity to conduct this event due to Mr Subir of Infosys, who resides in a layout in Jigani (a couple kilometers after Bannerghatta Circle). The event was supposed to be conducted for some odd 30 children, aged 6-14 yrs and few of their parents, staying in his locality.

We picked up Hemanth's 12" scope from his residence by afternoon and headed off for Jigani in his Wagon R car. Surprisingly, we've always had problems transporting the huge scope around, however this time it was so comfortable with the scope's mount and tube, there was no cramping at all! We were little late leaving from city and it was easily some 35 odd kilometers we had to cover from Airport to Bannerghatta.  read more »

BAS Volunteers Chandrashekhar and Pavan conducted an outreach session for the Children participating at the Summer Camp Organized by URISE Vishwa Seva Foundation at the Foundation's Ashram premises on Thursday, the night of 17th April, 2008.

The equipment for the session included Mr. Hemant Hariyani's 12" Dob. While we reached the venue at around 7PM, The event itself could begin no earlier than 9:30PM as the children were still involved in other programmes. Both Chandrashekhar and I were then introduced to the crowd and the Ashram Volunteers. A breif felicitation ceremony followed, and we were gifted mementos by Shri Vasudev Guruji.  read more »

Myself, Narasimhamurthy and Alex reached the school at about 6 pm. Mr. Mohan took us for a small walk and explained the facilities provided by the institute. The hostel, Classrooms, Playground, Auditorium every bit of it was royal !!!

At 6:30 just after the sunset, I setup my telescope and explained the students and swamiji the working of telescope, about objects in night sky, constellations and planets. There were about 60-75 students.

Observation of moon, saturn, mars, few stars and binary stars were made.

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