The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) will have a good time National Science Day as IIA Open Day on March 2, from 9.30 a.m. to five.30 p.m. at its campus in Koramangala, Bengaluru.
This occasion is open to most people, is free of cost, and there’s no prior registration required.
The institute will showcase astronomy and astrophysics via talks, demonstrations, stalls, in addition to posters and fashions.
Visitors can count on to see a tethered balloon carrying devices, tour of the optics lab, and sunspot and photo voltaic spectrum viewing, many new experiments on gravitational lensing, exoplanets, atmospheric seeing, adaptive optics, gravitational waves, infrared astronomy, liquid Nitrogen. There can be fashions of GSLV Mark III and an Outer Space Corridor for guests to expertise and be taught from.
The Open Day can have stalls by exterior newbie astronomy and science popularisation teams, and for the primary time, stalls by astronomy entrepreneurs, and guide sellers as properly.
In addition, the guests can have a possibility to participate in video games, quizzes, and sketching. IIA Archives will exhibit vital scientific artefacts from the institute’s historical past of greater than 230 years.
There can be a public speak on ‘Astrophotography and Night Skies from the Himalayas’ by Dorje Angchuk at 4 p.m., a chat on careers in astronomy at IIA at 2 p.m., and a chat in Kannada by B.S. Shubha on Indian astronomy at 12 midday.
IIA will organise guided excursions of all of the points of interest in Kannada at common intervals.
Visitors are suggested to deliver a water bottle. Limited parking is on the market contained in the Survey of India Quarters, Gate 2, subsequent to Union Bank.
Published – February 28, 2025 10:59 am IST
