Total Lunar Eclipse - December 10, 2011

By Mayank Raichura at December 11, 2011 01:35
Filed Under: Astro
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Annular Solar Eclipse – January 15, 2010 from Rajkot, Gujarat (INDIA)

By Mayank Raichura at February 03, 2010 02:22
Filed Under: Astro
Solar Eclipses are always fun to watch and photographing it is a cherry on the cake. Annular Solar Eclipse of January 15, 2010 was a great success (after a huge failure and total washout at Indore on July 22, 2009).

Although late, here is my brief report on it. [More]

Report: Total Solar Eclipse – July 22, 2009

By Mayank Raichura at August 12, 2009 02:23
Filed Under: Astro
I know I’m quite late to write my report for the forgotten TSE of July, 22, 2009 and honestly I had no interest to write anything after it turned out to be a total failure (!!! not eclipse :( ). But as a duty of a true observer, I’m going to (reluctantly) write a report for it. [More]

Interesting information for Total Solar Eclipse of July 22nd, 2009 from Indian Meteorological Department(IMD)

By Mayank Raichura at May 24, 2009 21:38
Filed Under: Astro
(Photo Courtesy: David Jeffery, University of Oklahoma)       As I was going through the weather information on IMD website, I came across Astronomy Information page. I clicked the link and it led me to Positional Astronomy Centre probably maintained by IMD, Kolkata. The section is quite informative and as I was going through it, I found a page containing information regarding Eclipses visible in India in the year of 2009. I just went through the page and found it to be quite informative. It has information regarding the visibility of upcoming TSE in July from different cit... [More]

Comet C/2008 N3 Lulin Report

By Mayank Raichura at April 23, 2009 16:55
Filed Under: Astro
  As Comet Lulin is getting fainter and fainter, I just thought to post report on my observations. Well, for right  now, all I can provide is dates on which I observed Comet Lulin but I'll probably update on my observations details later when I'll find time(and have my free bandwidth available – again!).     Photo Courtesy: APOD   Date Approx Time December 25, 2009 ~05:45 AM February 25, 2... [More]

MWPSK Theme – Astro

By Mayank Raichura at April 15, 2009 15:01
Filed Under: Featured, Download, Astro
    I created this little theme in the spirit of [IYA] – 2009 when I was using [MWPSK]. Now, that I don’t use it any more, I thought, I’ld let this theme remain available for download. The theme was created using MWPSK Theme Generator   Astro.zip

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Mayank Raichura Mayank Raichura is an aspiring VB.Net and ASP.net programmer who hails from Rajkot, Gujarat(India). He is known for his creations like Social Bookmarking Extension for BlogEngine.Net – AddThis and BlogEngine.Net Extension Creator. He has 6 years of experience in ASP and VB6 programming but recently have jumped in ASP.Net and VB.Net. Apart from that he loves sky gazing, photography, hiking, trekking, visiting place and playing games.

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