Friday, November 25, 2016

Pokhara Yuri’s Night Celebration and Space Party-2016

To celebrate the first human exploration in the Space, Pokhara Astronomical Society (PAS) organized 'Pokhara Yuri's Night Celebration and Space Party-2016' at Prithvi Narayan Campus, Pokhara on 12 April 2016. The program was conducted in association with Creative Science Association among more than thirty B.Sc. students to encourage them in space science education.
The program is divided into two sessions. Talk session and workshop session. The first session was started with documentary show  1st man ever in Space 'Vostok1' along with the presentation about history and importance of celebrating this day. Mr. Kamal Poudel presented a talk about scientific research methodology and Mr. Jeevan Lamsal delivered talk on the detection of gravitational wave.
Second session was run by Mr. Sabin Gautam. He instructed the participants to use Stellarium software along with the sky observation technique . Workshop session was followed by the preparation of Astrokits( Star wheel, Solar motion) to identify the position of stars in night sky and to understand the motion of Sun from different latitude of Earth at different time.

Mr. Kamal Poudel giving talk

Participants learning Stellarium

Astrokits making workshop

Mr. Sabin Gautam talking about sky observation techniques

Group photo


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