Provisional MBA Discovery

Congratulations to P. Chawla & A. Aggarwal from Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New Delhi.  They made the provisional MBA discovery 2011 MV9.  They made their original discovery during the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign conducted May-July 2011.  It was TOV44A discovered by the two studnets on June 29th, which has now moved to the provisional status.  Good job!!


AIASC Phase I now has 2 PROVISIONAL DISCOVERIES, and 21 PRELIMINARY DISCOVERIES.

INTERNET TELESCOPE PROJECT

SPACE and IASC bring you ‘Internet Telescope’

July 16^th, 17^th, 2011

SPACE is proud to bring the ‘Internet Telescope’ project for the first time to India. This is in collaboration with IASC, International Astronomy Search Collaboration. This is a pilot test for Global Astronomy Month in April 2012...Astronomers Without Borders. In April 2012 this project will be conducted with about 80 participants during Global Astronomy Month.

The Pilot test in July 2012 will be conducted with 16 participants, dates and sessions are listed below.

The Project Description
The project will be using a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes located at the Ironwood North Observatory.  This is a privately-owned observatory located in Queen Creek, AZ.  The students will be remotely commanding a CCD camera on the telescope to take images of asteroids, comets, and deep sky objects.  The deep sky objects include star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae.

For the asteroids and comets, images will be taken 1-hour apart then blinked to see the moving object against the fixed background stars.  For the deep sky objects there will be three images of each taken...one with the red filter, one with the green filter, and one with the blue filter.  The three images will be combined into a color image of the deep sky objects.

This is the first time this project is bring brought to India, and this will give the students the opportunity to be part of a international project and use hands on techniques to control a telescope in real time and understand how to identify a target, how to plan the exposures and how to analyse the data.

Session Plan:
Groups of 4 students each will be placed at one location with a laptop with skype, and share their desltop.  Each group will work 2 hours at the workstation using the telescope taking asteroid, comet, and deep sky images.

Venue: SPACE Office, WZ-19, Asalatpur, Janakpuri

Session #1
Saturday, July 16th        9:30am  - 11:30am IST (session 1, 4 students)
                                    11:30am- 1:00 pm IST  (session 2, 4 students)

Session #2
Sunday, July 17^th           9:30am  - 11:30am IST (session 3, 4 students)

                        11:30am- 1:00 pm IST  (session 4, 4 students)

Two Preliminary Discoveries

Two Preliminary Discoveries

Congratulations to A. Gosain & P. Lekhi from Navy Children School, New Delhi - Team  I.
On July 6th they discovered two Main Belt asteroids, TOV44T and TOV44W.  These were linked to NCS0056 and NCS0057 in the image set SN9D478-0706-32.

IASC updates - Its raining Asteroids!!!!

Triple Discovery!!

On July 5th, P. Chawla from Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New Delhi made three preliminary asteroid discoveries in one image set.  This student found TOV44M, AHSG06, and AHSG05.  These three discoveries were linked to the observations BBP8110, BBP8107, and BBP8815 in the image set SN9C83D-0705-32.

This is a spectacular accomplishment.  Congratulations!!!!

In addition to the triple asteroid discovery by P. Chawla from Bal Bharati Public School, Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, New Delhi, there are two more discoveries from July 5th:

1.    A. Arora & D. Bansal from Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj discovered TOV454.  This discovery was
linked to ABD0001 in the image set 2011 MW2-0705-24.

2.    S. Arya, S. Kesari, P. Kumar, & R. Jain from S.P.A.C.E. - Team I discovered TOV457.  This discovery was linked to SPA0061 in the image set 2011 MT-0705-24.

AIASC PHASE II WORKSHOP

AIASC PHASE II WORKSHOP

7th JULY, 2011

TIMING: 10:00 AM to 2:30 PM

LOCATION:
Bal Bharati Public School (GRH Marg)
Ganga Ram Hospital Marg, Pin - 110060, New Delhi

All selected participants must join us at the AIASC Phase II workshop as listed above.
AIASC Phase II will commence on July 11th, 2011 and continue till Aug 29th, 2011.