Observation of transit of Venus at Manipur University on June 6, 2012
- June 06 2012 -
The Department of Physics, Manipur University has made elaborate arrangement for observation of the transit of Venus across the face of the Sun in the early morning (from 5.30 AM to 9.30 AM) of June 6, 2012. The transit will be observable at Imphal from sunrise upto 10.16 AM of the day. The transit is an extremely rare event that happens approximately twice a century. The last transit occurred on June 8, 2004. The next transit will occur after 105 and a half years that is, on December 11, 2117 to be precise and persons living now will not see it.
As part of the observation programme there will be a live show of the transit of Venus through a 12 inches Meade LX200GPS telescope fitted with Colorado SolarMax II 90mm Hydrogen alpha filter and also by use of the Projection Method employing a pinhole camera, a binocular or a small telescope.
Telescopes at MU for transit of Venus Observation
As a countdown for the programme, there will be a night watch programme for observation of planets, constellations, galaxies, satellites including the famous Hubble Space Telescope on the previous night i.e., the night of June 5, 2012 (from 6.30 PM to 8.30 PM).
Interested students may participate in the observation programmes. However, they will be required to collect an Entry Pass from the Department on submission of two passport size photographs and a photocopy of their identity cards, on or before June 4, 2012.
(Prof. K. Yugindro Singh)
Coordinator, SAP
Department of Physics,
Manipur University
* THis info was sent by Professor K. Yugindro Singh (Department of Physics, MU) who can be contacted at yugindro361(at)gmail(dot)com
This Press Release was posted on June 02 , 2012.
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