Case Study Of M. P. Birla Planetarium
Sthanapati: Did you ever set up an Astronomical Observatory in the planetarium?
Subramanian: Till now we are not having an observatory as such. Some 20 years ago, I had moved for procurement of Celetron C14 telescope, which is manufactured in USA. I wrote several times to them, on some excuse or the other, they were not giving me the quotation. Then I wrote to some German firm, who immediately responded. That is how I imported it, though American equipment from Germany. It has got several attachments. Filters are there. It is also computerized. You can set the coordinates and it will chase it. It was set up on the terrace of the M. P. Birla High School in Kolkata, where we had used a sliding roof type of observatory. Mr. Piyush Pandey, Assistant …show more content…
Subramanian: The Birla Planetarium or M. P. Birla Planetarium was first set up by the Birla Education Trust, Pilani. Later it was shifted to the unit called Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, which was a new trust, set up about 30 years back under M. P. Birla Group. So, Birla Institute of Fundamental Research is the parent body of the planetarium.
Note:
Some portions of this interview was included in an article entitled ‘M.P. Birla Planetarium – Fifty Years of Peering at the Skies’ published in the July 2013 issue of ‘Science Reporter’, a magazine of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information resources, under CSIR, New Delhi.
Photo Captions
Photo 1: Prof. Ramanatha Subramanian
Photo 2: Prof. Ramanatha Subramanian was interviewed by Dr Jayanta Sthanapati
Photo 3: A gallery on physics in NPL Science Museum, New Delhi
Photo 4: Syt. Madhav Prasad Birla
Photo 5: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru signed the Visitors’ Book after inaugurating Birla Planetarium
Photo 6: Carl Zeiss project being operational in M P Birla Planetarium since 1962
Photo 7: Present view of M. P. Birla Planetarium in
Subramanian: Till now we are not having an observatory as such. Some 20 years ago, I had moved for procurement of Celetron C14 telescope, which is manufactured in USA. I wrote several times to them, on some excuse or the other, they were not giving me the quotation. Then I wrote to some German firm, who immediately responded. That is how I imported it, though American equipment from Germany. It has got several attachments. Filters are there. It is also computerized. You can set the coordinates and it will chase it. It was set up on the terrace of the M. P. Birla High School in Kolkata, where we had used a sliding roof type of observatory. Mr. Piyush Pandey, Assistant …show more content…
Subramanian: The Birla Planetarium or M. P. Birla Planetarium was first set up by the Birla Education Trust, Pilani. Later it was shifted to the unit called Birla Institute of Fundamental Research, which was a new trust, set up about 30 years back under M. P. Birla Group. So, Birla Institute of Fundamental Research is the parent body of the planetarium.
Note:
Some portions of this interview was included in an article entitled ‘M.P. Birla Planetarium – Fifty Years of Peering at the Skies’ published in the July 2013 issue of ‘Science Reporter’, a magazine of the National Institute of Science Communication and Information resources, under CSIR, New Delhi.
Photo Captions
Photo 1: Prof. Ramanatha Subramanian
Photo 2: Prof. Ramanatha Subramanian was interviewed by Dr Jayanta Sthanapati
Photo 3: A gallery on physics in NPL Science Museum, New Delhi
Photo 4: Syt. Madhav Prasad Birla
Photo 5: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru signed the Visitors’ Book after inaugurating Birla Planetarium
Photo 6: Carl Zeiss project being operational in M P Birla Planetarium since 1962
Photo 7: Present view of M. P. Birla Planetarium in