On 13th, the participants of the tour visited two important places, Vikram Sarabhai Space Center and Weather Observatory, Trivandrum. At VSSC, Participants visited the space museum there and also watched a documentary film on ISRO's Journey, Space Recovery Experiment and Chadryaan Mission.

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Mayuresh Prabhune addressing participants of Odyssey Tour and Participants of tour arranged by Bhaskaracharya Astronomy Research Center, Ahmednagar.	Weather Observatory, Trivandrum Visit
Solar Panel at Weather Observatory, Trivandrum
Scientist explaining the working of instrument used in observations	Weather Baloon used for observations of upper atmosphere

Mayuresh Prabhune explaning participants the importance of atmospheric observations	Scientists and their assistants prepare instruments that are to be attached to the hydrogen balloon
Releasing the baloon
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Radar System that tracks the Balloon and Instruments onboard and receives the scientific data

14 Jan was rest day. Participants went to see Ramsethu at Dhanushkodi in the evening. At night, there was a star gazing program arranged by Khagol Vishwa. Mayuresh Prabhune indroduced everyone to night sky, constellations and Rashi, nakshatras. After that, everyone observed Pleiades, Orion Nebula and Mars through telescope

Pictures coming soon..

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Eclipse Observations started around 10 am in the morning at Hotel Tamilnadu, a government hotel. Khagol Vishwa had set up three telescopes, 5 galilean telescopes, 80X20 binocular for participants so they can view the Sun. Various experiments and observations were carried out, like visual observations, measurement of drop in tempreture and light, radio observations of Sun during eclipse etc.

After eclipse participants went to Panban Bridge for some time and then returned to Madurai.

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Click on the image for Annular Solar Eclipse Photo Gallery	Observing Eclipse by projection method
	Participants carrying various experiments
Eclipse Photography	Observing Eclipse

Observing eclipse using Pin-hole projection.	Sneha Kulkarni projecting eclipse

Galilean Telescopes used for visual observations	Radio Observation setup. Moxon Antenna and skypipe software was used for the observations
Pamban Bridge View	Pamban Bridge

View from Pamban Bridge
Pamban Railway Bridge	Bascule Bridge-Structure

16 January was free day. Some of the participants went to Minakshi Temple at Madurai while some enjoyed shopping.

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