The Department of Aerospace Engineering, MVJ College of Engineering, organized an event ‘Space for Everyone’‘Space for Everyone’, an interactive session related to optical Astronomy, on 20th December 2022.
The event started at 9.00 am at the Rajalakshmi Seminal Hall. Around 200 students from the fifth and seventh semesters of the Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering departments participated in this event. The objective of this event was to educate the students about Optical Astronomy and learn about the celestial objects in space.
The session started with Dr.P.Mahabaleswarappa, Principal – MVJCE, welcoming the audience and the Guest Speaker. During his talk, our Principal highlighted the importance of space and space-related activities.
The Chief Guest, Mr. SanjeeshPilakkat (Director – Principal Engineer, CapgeminiEngineering) then started his lecture on ‘Space for Everyone’. He gave a brief explanation about various astronomical activities such as Halley’s Comet and its orbitaltime period.He explained about various independent Astronomical organizations, and also about Optical Astronomy and Radio Astronomy. Speaking about Optical Astronomy, he highlighted the importance of telescopes, and explained about making an optical telescope in a cost-effective way, using a low-cost spectacle lens, with the eye piece of the microscope having around 33x power, housed in a PVC plastic tube, and its magnifying range up to the distance of Saturn rings, satellites of Jupiter etc.