The All India Asteroid Search Campaign started off with a bang on Friday, 7th May, 2010, 10:00am - 2:00pm at a workshop organized by SPACE at Nehru Planetarium MML to train teachers from selected schools for Phase I of the campaign which is about to start on May 17th and continue till June 30th.
The workshop included presentations by Dr. Rathnashree, Director, Nehru Planetarium on how asteroid discoveries have been made historically and by C.B. Devgun, President, SPACE on what asteroids are, why we should study them and about the program Asteroid Search Campaign. Mila Mitra, Scientific Officer, SPACE conducted a session on how the software Astrometrica should be used to find asteroids in the sky data fields that will be provided exclusively to each participating school.
13 teachers from schools which have been especially selected for this phase attended. This included teachers from Gyan Bharati, Saket; Delhi Public School, Gurgaon; Indirapuram School, Indirapuram; Bal Bharati Public School, Rajinder Nagar and Pitam Pura branches; Hillwoods Academy, Preet Vihar; Tagore International School, Vasant Vikar; Greenways Modern School, Dilshad Garden; Delhi Public School, Sonipat; Delhi Public School, Dwarka; Amity International School, Saket; Ahlcon International School, Mayur Vihar and individual students Shubham Goyal and Shivansh Chaturvedi from a special group made up exclusively of students called the SPACE Club Alpha.
The workshop went off well and most of the teachers installed the software and carried out some astrometry procedures identifying moving objects in a start field, which will enable them to show their students the basic concepts in preparation for the real data coming in.
Pictures from the workshop are available at
http://picasaweb.google.co.in/organisationspace/AllIndiaAsteroidSearchCampaignPhaseIWorkshop#
and at
http://organisationspace.blogspot.com/2010/05/images-form-workshop-phase-1.html
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