Astronomy and Planetary Science Club of AU

We are proud to present the Office Bearers of Astro Club of AU for the year 2021-2022! Heartiest congrats to everyone! 🎉

Senior Executives:

Secretary: Swadesh B, 4th year, CSE
Editing: Sridhar M, 3rd year, Textile
Contents: Aswin, 3rd Year, Chemical
Events: Sai Krishnan, 3rd year, ECE
QMS : Sandhya, 3rd year, Chemical
Design: Suwetha Devi, 3 year, Maths
Social Media and Marketing: Abhishri M, 3rd year, Leather

Junior Executives:

Content: Shershon AJ, 2nd year, IT
Editing: Syed Zafirah, 2nd year, Ceramic
Events: Aishwarya G, 2nd year, IBT
Design: Vani Padmakumar, 2nd year, IBT
Social Media and Marketing: Syed Junaid Ali, 2nd year, CSE

Onwards and Upwards! 🚀🌌

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh

Astro Club is proud to present the new monthly series "Star Dome"! You can check out the star chart for the month of JUNE featuring the prominent stars and constellations of the month.
Be on the lookout every month for Astro Club's Star Dome!

Swipe ➡️ to see a short guide for reading the chart.

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Thins week's Astro Times post is about the recent studies regarding the cosmic origins of heavy metals on Earth!

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Cosmic Calendar for the month of June is here! Check it out now!

Read about the re-entry of the Chinese Long March 5 rocket and its hazardous implications in today's Astro Times post

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Behold! The cosmic calendar for the month of May is here! Take a note of the significant events for this month.

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The Kodaikanal Solar Observatory operated by Indian Institute of Astrophysics was installed in the year 1898 and began regular white light observation on the Sun from 1904. From the Kodaikanal Tunnel Telescope to a High Frequency Doppler radar, it is home to a myriad of radio astronomy equipments which have helped make countless discoveries.

Astro Club of AU is honoured to host Dr.Ebenezer Chellasamy, scientist from the prestigious Indian Institute of Astrophysics to take us on a virtual tour of the fascinating Solar Observatory at Kodaikanal.

Participants can join us on May, 2nd at 3pm. Meeting link for the event will be posted in the bio at 12pm.

Astro Times is here and it touches on the the important milestone of NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity. Stay tuned for more news!

Light pollution is defined as is the excessive, misdirected or obtrusive artificial light, generally in the outdoors. It is one of the overlooked types of pollution which has a greater adverse impact on the environment. Naturally, the night is meant to be dark and the day is meant to be bright. When this is changed, everything gets affected. Light pollution threatens the nocturnal wildlife the most by affecting the darkness they require at night-time leading to a negative impact on plant and animal physiology. It can confuse migratory birds and can alter the predator-prey relationship. Human health is affected by exposure to light at night by several means like disturbances in natural body cycles, production of melatonin, stress and it is even linked to some cancer. It also disturbs astronomy researches and deprives us of the beautiful night sky. So, as much as we recognize air and water pollution, light pollution must also be taken as an issue. Lighting up earth is good but when this comes at the cost of our night sky is one thing that definitely should be worked upon.

Astro Club of AU is proud to take part in the International Dark-Sky Week activities. We hope everyone had an interesting time learning about the importance of preserving the dark sky. We will see you tomorrow 3 pm with the final talk of the week on an interesting topic "Light Pollution and Astrophotography"

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Are you a budding photographer who has always been curious to know more about capturing the beautiful night sky? Have you always kept trying but never got the right circumstances to capture the right moment? Well, the reason why we don’t often see a night sky filled with beautiful stars is because of Light Pollution.

Want to know how? Worry not, as Astro Club of AU presents Relight the Stars: a webinar on "Light Pollution and Astrophotography" by Mr.Sathyanarayanan as a part of Relight the Stars, exclusively to tell you how and also enlighten you on how to improve at astrophotography.

So what are you waiting for? Do step closer to entering the world of astrophotography by joining the final event of Relight the Stars this Sunday!