Venus Transit 2012 - Bangalore Astronomical Society Public Program



By naveenln; Published 04 Jun 2012

BAS in association with Karnataka Gyan Vigyan Samithi is pleased to announce the public outreach and observation event at Lalbagh. This is in association with Karnataka Gyan Vigyan Samithi.

Date : 6th June, 2012
Time : 6:30 am - 10:30 am
Place : Lalbagh ( small hill area )
Breakfast distribution by KGVS & BAS for all observers
General talks on Transit and discussion
Observation method :
Projection through Telescope,
Visual filter on binoculars,
Visual filter on telescopes,
Solar Goggles
Photography using filter though telescopes
Volunteers: Keerthi Kiran, Naveen, Achyut, Pramod, Basavaraj + KGVS volunteers and M.R.Nagaraju (popularly known as walking encyclopedia)

Other volunteers who are doing observation and outreach to local public ( streets, appartments, schools/colleges., etc)
1) Viswakeethi
2) Girish Kumar
3) Pradeep
4) Sundar
5) Leela K
6) Amar
7) Subhankar
8) Sankar
9) Nilesh T
10) Sanath
11) Aditya
12) Vishwanath
and so on..

Please take good care on observing Venus transit, this is last time all of us would be seeing. so use safe method to watch sun.

Happy Venus Transit. See you all at Lalbagh. Thanks for all the volunteers.