Astronomy Quiz 1One of my colleague and good friend Manohar Burra created these nice set of quiz questions for our local Astronomy club. He is also an Software Engineer, Quiz Master and an Amateur Astronomer. I thought of sharing everybody and check their knowledge. Let us know in comments how many you could answer (of …
Tag Archive: Astronomy
Apr 21
Stargazing session with Amgonna and friends
Me and my friends at work have been stargazing session since the beginning of the winter. However it never materialized. Sometimes full moon dominance, sometimes volunteer activities at work, every now and then there was some reason for unavailability of common free time. To be honest, push from my side was also less because of …
Dec 13
Lunar Eclipse 10 December 2011
This was last eclipse of the year. I had already missed the longest total lunar eclipse this year on 15th June because of bad weather. Unfortunately this time also it was cloudy when the eclipse started. However the sky became clear even before half of the moon was covered by earth’s shadow. Also I was …
Nov 14
Orion StarMax 90mm Table top
My first telescope was a Celestron PowerSeeker 127EQ which was quite big to carry. I recently bought another small one , Orion StarMx 90mm table top. Thanks to my friends for delivering it all the way from USA to my house. This is a portable telescope with 90 mm of aperture which good enough to …
Oct 27
Hang out with AstronomyCast
Google Hangout has been a coll feature where people can do video conferencing for free and it is totally web based. I have been a regular listener of AstronomyCast who were recording their episode 236 live in a Google hangout session on 24th October 2011. It was great to be in the live recording session …
Oct 09
Astrophotography with Point and Shoot Camera
Place the mouse pointer over the image to see the consterlation lines and labels I recently tried to click some celestial picture with my new Sony Cyber-Shot Hx9V. Taking snaps of stars and planets is really challenging because very less amount of light reaches us and the lights generated from earth (specially at urban locations) …
Jun 18
Lunar Eclipse 15 June 2011
This time we the people living in the south Asian subcontinent were lucky to see total lunar eclipse. NASA has released a new video that shows how lunar eclipses work.This was the lunar eclipse with longest totality in the century. However I was not so lucky as cloud prevailed over Hyderabad sky for the whole …
Apr 18
Visual Effects: Wonders of the Universe
I recently posted about BBC’s “The wonders of universe” . Here is the compilation video created by BDH The Mountain from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo. http://s3.amazonaws.com/15RA3VAXGEYQ5AVGC9G2.videos/bdh_player.swf
Mar 31
The wonders of the universe
After wonderful episodes of The wonders of the Solar System Prof. Brian Cox is back in BBC with his brand new episodes of The Wonders of the Universe. I am very much excited to watch all the episode which not only does a great awareness of basic science among people but also tries describe complicated …
Mar 21
The Super Moon
Lately I was busy explaining people that Earthquake in Japan has nothing to do with the supermoon. Here is Phil Plait’s blog explaining everything. The size of the moon won’t be so so big on that day that naked human eye can distinguish. The size of the moon varies like this every month but this …