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Written by Mahesh Naik
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This section deals with models made by our members for the purpose of demontration of astronomical phenomena. List below are descriptions and details of some of these models.
- The Sun, Moon and Earth system : By Abhir Joshi
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- A huge, working model that shows the sun at
the centre, the earth revolving around the sun and the moon revolving around the
earth. It can explain a number of phenomena related to the three bodies like
eclipses, occurrence of eclipses only on some full moon and new moon
days, Kepler's laws, occurrence of six month long day and six month long night
on north and south pole of the earth, precession motion of the earths axis, and
many more. Concepts that require 3 to 4 hours of lecture with a lot of
visualisation can be explained within 20 minutes in solid reality.
- Total Solar
Eclipse : By Abhir Joshi
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- A computer controlled working model showing
how a Total Solar Eclipse (TSE) would look like in reality and also some of the
phenomena visible during the TSE like the Corona, diamond ring, Bailey's
beads, etc
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