Mysuru: The Department of Physics at SBRR Mahajana First Grade College celebrated National Space Day in the college quadrangle recently. The event featured Dr. S.N. Prasad, Former Principal and Professor of Physics at the Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru, as the guest of honour. Dr. Prasad highlighted the significance of National Space Day, commemorating the…
By Dr. S.N. Prasad, Amateur Astronomer, Mysuru A cosmic dance of planets Jupiter and Venus, low down in the western sky after sunset, has kept observers enthralled in the past few days. These two objects, easily the brightest in the night sky till they disappear below the western horizon, are said to be in conjunction,…
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By Dr. S.N. Prasad, Amateur Astronomer, Mysuru Comet C/2022 E3 [ZTF] has been making the news for quite some time, though very few people have actually seen it with the unaided eye. The comet’s sighting from the outskirts of Mysuru city was first reported in Star of Mysore a fortnight ago, on Jan. 30. Now,…
Mysore/Mysuru: Mysore Open Forum has organised a multimedia presentation on ‘Wonders of the Night Sky’ by Dr. S.N. Prasad, former Principal, Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysuru, at 10.30 am on Saturday (June 25) at Kalpa Kshetra Auditorium, 581/1, Vijayanagar 4th Stage, 1st Phase, Mysuru. Dr. S.N. Prasad is a Teacher, Educator and Educational Consultant…
Annular Solar Eclipse starts around 10.10 am, reaches maximum around 11.43 am and ends around 1.26 pm By Dr. S.N. Prasad, former Principal and Professor of Physics, Regional Institute of Education, Mysuru The great annular solar eclipse last seen in many parts of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu on 26th December, 2019 is still fresh…
Meet city’s octogenarian umbraphile who travels the globe chasing a blackened Sun By B.C. Thimmaiah Though a total solar eclipse occurs about every 18 months or so, its visibility at any particular place is extremely rare. In order to experience the full effect of the eclipse, one must be on the ‘path of totality’, a…
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