IIITDM students watch a rare sight
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Institute makes arrangements to view the celestial wonder
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Institute makes arrangements to view the celestial wonder
Students and faculty members of the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kurnool, had a tryst with the celestial bodies Jupiter and Saturn when they came closest after 400 years on Monday.
A telescope of the Astronomy Club of the institution set up on its terrace turned out to be the centre of attraction with everyone eagerly waiting for the sun to set and technical assistant Jitender adjusted the telescope in the right angle for institute director D.V.L.N. Somayajulu to watch the Saturn rings and the bright Jupiter’s four moons.
SINGAPORE - Individuals and groups across the island looked to the skies on Monday (Dec 21) night to witness what appeared to be a single intense point of light, but was actually a kiss of two planets - Saturn and Jupiter, which came the closest they have been in centuries.
The event, also known as the Great Conjunction or Christmas Star, fell coincidentally on the winter solstice (Dec 21), the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
According to the National University of Singapore, the last time they were this close, and visible, was in the pre-dawn sky on 4 March 1226, at the height of Genghis Khan s Mongol Empire.
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Jupiter and Saturn come the closest they have been to each other in centuries
Mr Tan Jyh Harng, 28, a science educator, doing a test run of the live stream for the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the observatory at Science Centre Singapore on Sunday.ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Jupiter (left) and Saturn (right), captured from a telescope from a multi-storey carpark in Jurong on the eve of the Great Conjunction. PHOTO: AKASH ANANDH
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The next closes conjunction would appear 60 years from now
Astronomy Club of the Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), one of the active such clubs will be holding a special session to watch the the “Conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn on Monday evening through a special telescope the institute possesses.
The Head of Department of Sciences at IIITDM here told
The Hindu that its student members had been doing a lot of research on such celestial events and making the best use of resources at the library and the astronomical telescope. One of the leading members of the Astronomy Club, Deepika Lahari, who is pursuing computer science, second year, explains that the largest among the eight planets in the solar family is the red-spotted Jupiter and the second-largest is the ringed-planet Saturn. She has prepared a leaflet based on her research for her club members.
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