“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” A.S. Mahajan in 2012.
IIT Gandhinagar's Astronomy Club started by Shyamal Kishore and 5 others under the guidance of Prof.
07/03/2022
We hope that you are enjoying your hard-earned mid sem break. We know how much you deserve it!
Odyssey plans to organize a live screening of SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 4-10 Launch. The details are;
Date: 8th March 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:15 PM onwards
Venue: 300 Auditorium
11/02/2022
Odyssey invites you to an interactive session (offline) on the topic, "IITGn's Own Satellite?" by Prof. Soumyabrata Chakrabarty. In this talk, we would discuss the possibility of launching a satellite made by IITGn students, the various parameters & constraints involved, and more!
About the speaker:
Prof. Chakrabarty is a senior ISRO scientist and a visiting faculty at IIT Gandhinagar. He has over 25 years of experience working as a scientist in the Microwave sensors department.
Date: 12th February 2022 (Saturday)
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Venue: Jasubhai Auditorium (AB 2)
Looking forward to your active participation!
09/01/2022
Kuddos BTech Freshers,
Here's a simple riddle for you. Are u up for the challenge?
Join Odyssey and stay tuned for more interesting content!
10/11/2021
Dear All,
We hope that you all are doing well and had a joyous Diwali.
Odyssey is organizing a talk on the topic "Life Beyond Earth". We are honoured to have Dr Goutam Chattopadhyay as our speaker who is a Senior Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He will talk about NASA's technologies and answer several science questions.
Date: 11th November 2021 (tomorrow)
Time: 9:30 onwards
Link: https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/99312635796
27/07/2021
Kuddos Freshers!!!
Astronomy had bedazzled mankind since forever. From times immemorial we have desired to unravel the mysteries of the world Beyond. Do you want to unravel the secrets of space? Have you got the burning desire to know it all? Join Odyssey to explore space and astronomy!!
The 1st and the 35th person to comment the correct answer on Instagram and 1st and the 15th person to comment on Facebook win exciting merchandise!
22/06/2021
Greetings Astrofans!
Odyssey, the Astronomy Club of IIT Gandhinagar brings you another talk in the series Astrotalks. This time our speaker is Govardhan Ingle, a first-year undergraduate student in the discipline of Material Science and Engineering.
Looking forward to seeing you in large numbers.
Name: Govardhan Ingle
Topic: Summer Solstice
Date: 23rd June 2021
Time: 9 pm
Duration: about 20 mins
08/02/2021
Greetings Astro-fans!
Odyssey in collaboration with SSS brings you another interesting talk. This time we have Dr. Kimberly Arcand, who works as a visualization scientist and Science Communicator at NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
She will be speaking on "Walking among the stars, a 3D data science Journey with NASA". she will also be talking about "the two decades of Chandra's X-ray Observatory"
Save the Date!
Date: 9th February 2021
Time: 7:00 PM (IST)
The link: https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/96361020863
Looking forward to seeing you in great numbers
24/01/2021
Greetings Astrofanatics!
Odyssey takes immense pleasure in inviting Dr. Rathnashree Nandivada on giving a talk on 'Positional Astronomy through the ages'.
The talk is scheduled for today at 8 PM. The link is:
https://iitgn-ac-in.zoom.us/j/99292788503
Looking forward to your participation.
Design Credits: Deep Thakkar
14/01/2021
Greetings Astrofanatics! Happy Makar Sankranti!
Today is Makar Sankranti, but what does this mean in an astronomical context? Wanna know more about Capricorn in astronomical terms?
We have all the answers! stay tuned for more!
21/12/2020
The Great Conjunction
This event refers to the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. On 21st December, both of the planets will be seen as a single bright star in the southwestern sky. This single bright star is popularly known as the ' Christmas star'.The separation between the two planets will be 0.1°. The actual distance between the two will be about 735 million kilometers. The planets regularly appear to pass each other in the solar system, with the positions of Jupiter and Saturn being aligned in the sky about once every 20 years. But what makes this event special this time is that it’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed with that much closeness to each other in the sky and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as it will be in 2020.
18/12/2020
Kuddos Freshers!!!
Astronomy had bedazzled mankind since forever. From times immemorial we have desired to unravel the mysteries of the world Beyond. Do you want to unravel the secrets of space? Have you got the burning desire to know it all? Join Odyssey to explore space and astronomy!!!
The 1st, 15th, and 75th person to comment the answer will get exciting prizes.
Design Credits: Deep Thakkar
18/12/2020
Star trails around Polaris
Stars appear to move across the night sky from east to west due to the rotational motion of earth, around its polar axis.
Polaris (Or North Star/Dhruv Tara/Dhruva Nakshatra) appears to be at a fixed location all through the night while the stars (and constellations) move about around it.
In this image as well you can see stars 'circling' around Polaris. The stars closer to the pole appear to make a smaller arc than the ones further away.
Now, if you look closely, even Polaris has moved a little! This is because Polaris is not exactly at our north pole. The north pole and polaris appear to be about half a degree apart or about the same size as the full moon appears to our naked eye, as seen from earth.
A few of the straighter lines are made by airplanes
500+ images were taken from 7 pm to 11 pm on a Canon 600D with a Tokina 11-16, wide open at f2.8