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Telescopes of India Tour: The Tour plan rehashed
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Telescopes of India Tour. Thursday, May 21, 2009. The Tour plan rehashed. It has been a very long time since I last updated this blog and I should have been more regular I guess. Well, part of the good news is that the Tour is still on. I have also finalised a good outline for the way things will pan out before, during and after a visit. The updates will, ofcourse depend on Internet connectivity etc but this is the rough outline. 2 Plans, who I am going to meet and accept reader questions. In addition to...
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Telescopes of India Tour: Maps of Indian observatories
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Telescopes of India Tour. Sunday, September 7, 2008. Maps of Indian observatories. Perhaps, the second step. I have started putting all the observatories onto one single Google map. Right now, you might be able to view Hanle and Kodaikanal on the Map given below:. You can catch the updates as they happen on the map by subscribing to the RSS feed for this map. Or view it in Google Earth. I think this is more fun to watch the updates than a plain old spread sheet. RSS feed for spreadsheet.
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Telescopes of India Tour: Telescopes of India Tour - Responses
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Telescopes of India Tour. Thursday, September 4, 2008. Telescopes of India Tour - Responses. First of all, I'd like to clarify that this tour is now being backed by SEDS India. It's an organisation that I have been leading for the past 4 years now and we're under the process of registeration. Now that, that's out of the way, I have been getting quite a response to my yesterday's blog post and emails to several mailing lists that I have been on -. Asking for any help in communicating with IYA teams. For f...
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Telescopes of India Tour: Observatories of India - Google Docs Spreadsheet
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Telescopes of India Tour. Thursday, September 4, 2008. Observatories of India - Google Docs Spreadsheet. I have been putting together a list of the Observatories in India. I have managed to find about 8 of them including one ancient. These are the ones with their own website, which make them searchable on the Internet. I believe there are many more. This is the current list of observatories. That I know of. If you know of any other observatory, please do let me know via email, or leave a comment here.
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Telescopes of India Tour: ToIt Spreadsheet additions
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Telescopes of India Tour. Friday, September 5, 2008. ToIt expands as Telescopes of India tour. Anyway, I got a couple of observatories from Ajay Talwar. You can see the updated spreadsheet here. Sampuranand Telescope, ARIES, Nainital. Mt Abu Observatory, Gurushikhar. He also told me about a telescope at DU and his own 20" Dobsonian Mobile telescope. Reference to an old British-era observatory at Thiruvananthapuram was also made. Thanks for the links Ajay! Tour Packages to South India. Is licensed under a...
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Telescopes of India Tour: Details on Visit to Hanle
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Telescopes of India Tour. Friday, September 5, 2008. Details on Visit to Hanle. I just saw this in my inbox. Vikrant (from SPACE. Had in his email to me referred to Tushar Prabhu from IIAp. So, it was great to see his email in my inbox. I think this gives you some idea of what it takes to go to the world's highest observatory at Hanle. Sep-Oct is a nice time to visit when the minimum temperature would be between 0 and 5 C. Weather would be fine, though there is a small chance of light rain. International...
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Telescopes of India Tour: The Observatories on the Tour
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Telescopes of India Tour. Friday, January 2, 2009. The Observatories on the Tour. Wishing one and all a Happy New Year. In the coming year, 2009, we will be going on a tour of some of the observatories in India. The trip can, perhaps be best described as a pilgrimage to the Holy places of astronomy in the country, with a connection to the heavens! I like how that snugly fits the description. So, without much ado, here is the list of observatories I plan on visiting, subject to their approval:. In additio...
