Students and amateur sky watchers can now learn and train themselves in astronomy during a one-month online course. Pune-based Jyotirvidya Parishad (JVP), India’s oldest association of amateur astronomy, is offering ‘Basic Astronomy’ course in July.
Astronomers and scientists from Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), TIFR – National Center for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) and JVP will deliver online lectures.
The course, scheduled from July 4 to August 4, is open to ninth grade students and adults. Some of the main topics covered during the month-long course will be Solar System, History of Astronomy, Positional Astronomy, Astrophotography, Astronomical Instruments, Cosmology, Radio Astronomy, Eclipses, Astronomy and Gravitational Waves.
Course registration can be done through JVP Mobile App. For more details about the program and syllabus interested candidates can visit here http://www.jvppune.in