Guided tour in Kannada on Open Day at Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bengaluru on March 2

Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) will have fun Nationwide Science Day on March 2 as IIA Open Day. The campus at Koramangala in Bengaluru might be open to everybody from 9.30 a.m. to five.30 p.m..
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The Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) will have fun Nationwide 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 freed from cost, and there’s no prior registration required.

The institute will showcase astronomy and astrophysics by talks, demonstrations, stalls, in addition to posters and fashions.

Guests can anticipate 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 might be fashions of GSLV Mark III and an Outer Area Hall for guests to expertise and study from.

The Open Day can have stalls by exterior novice astronomy and science popularisation teams, and for the primary time, stalls by astronomy entrepreneurs, and guide sellers as nicely.

As well as, the guests can have a chance 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 might be a public discuss on ‘Astrophotography and Night time 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.

Guests are suggested to convey a water bottle. Restricted parking is offered contained in the Survey of India Quarters, Gate 2, subsequent to Union Financial institution.