Registration link: https://forms.gle/L7RRVq9dKXXmECd16

Mysore/Mysuru: The Cosmology Education and Research Training Center (COSMOS), Mysuru, is facilitating an Asteroid Search Campaign where students get to work on actual data from the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii in collaboration with Hands-on Universe, India.

The Campaign is part of the International Asteroid Search Campaign conducted by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC). Students, volunteers and interested people will be given datasets of photographs taken by the telescope to analyse and train on how to report them.

In the case of a discovery, the students’ and volunteers’ names will be listed as part of the preliminary discoveries.

There will be further observations over a few years. If confirmed, the student/team who discovered it will be allowed to name the asteroid.

All participants will receive a certificate endorsed by IHOU, IASC, PanSTARRS and NASA on successful completion. Participation is free, and anyone interested in Astronomy who meets the requirements is encouraged to apply before Sept. 6, 2023.

The requirements are as mentioned below:

1. A student/volunteer must be 13-plus years old.

2. The students/volunteers are expected to have a personal laptop or desktop.

3. Internet Accessibility.

4. Basic Computer Skills, according to a press release from Project Associate-I: COSMOS, Indian Institute of Astrophysics.