ASTRONOMY AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CLUB OF ANNA UNIVERSITY

The Astronomy and Planetary Science club will act as a base for amateur astronomy and Planetary Science related activities. The exchange of information and spreading of general awareness about various astronomical events will find a common platform in the club. The club will also give exposure to various paraphernalia used by Astronomers and Planetary Scientists.

We plan to meet monthly or fortnightly (mostly during weekends) to hold sky watching Sessions, lectures, telescope making sessions and astrophotography sessions. The team members are a part of Tanastroclub of Tamil Nadu Science and technology centre. So, we also hope to have some joint observation and Telescope design sessions with Tanastroclub. Further, we also aim to have joint sessions for special Observations with IIT-Madras Astronomy Club.

Apart from observation sessions, we also plan to focus on Astronomical Image processing and Planetary Atmospheric correction analyses which are the primary requirements of planetary datasets.

ACTIVITIES

Observation sessions
Lectures by eminent Astronomers and Video Conferencing sessions.
Astrophotography
Planetary Remote Sensing
Astronomical Image Processing.
Theory sessions on Astrophysics.

RESOURCES

The initial sessions will be commenced with Amateur observations and HUBBLE telescopic data analyses. The data from Hubble is available online in the archive. The club activities can then be extended in plethora of Astronomical Arenas. We are likely to approach domain experts in Indian Institute of Astrophysics - Bangalore, Astronomy and Space Science Club, Ahmedabad, PLANEX Building-Physical Research Laboratory, ISRO, Ahmedabad for our initial lecture sessions.

I sincerely thank the team leaders Indhu ( B.E Geoinformatics ) and Gopi (M.E Geomatics) for their extraordinary zeal in motivating the club.