The Chandrayaan Vipnet club of Physics department,
Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar organized “Night Sky Watch”. Total 62
students of various streams of the college participated in this life time
experience event. Ms. Saloni Sharma, Associate Prof. (H.O.D Physics Deptt.)
welcomed the Resource Person Mr. Akashdeep Singh (Incharge of Night Sky Watch)
from Pushpa Gujral Science city with a planter.
Mr. Akashdeep Singh gave a power point presentation
on “Universe and Celestial Bodies” to aware the students about composition of
our Solar System. He explained about birth and death of stars as well as
different colours of stars. He described about the big bang theory of creation
of planets and galaxies. He discussed about different shapes of galaxies and
explained that the galaxies are constantly moving away from each other. He told the students
that Sun is about 149 million km away from Earth. He
compared the size of all the planets of our solar system with that of the Sun
with special reference to Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. He also explained about
different phases of moon and how they are formed.
After the presentation section, Mr. Akashdeep Singh
set high power telescope in the college lawn. He focused on moon as well as
planet Saturn and Jupiter with high power telescopes. Faculty members of the
college and students viewed the surface of moon, Jupiter and the Saturn with
beautiful rings with the telescope. On this event, Mr. Sushil Kumar, Ms. Simmi Garg
and Dr. Deepshikha Assistant Professor in Physics were also present. Principal
Prof. Dr. Mrs. Ajay Sareen congratulated the Department for successful
organization of such an event.
