Saturday, December 4, 2010

TRIVANDRUM PLANETARIUM

Trivandrum I hope you may all well knowing about the city It is the capital of Kerela in India and another speciality is that holds Priyadersini Planetarium.The Priyadarshini Planetarium is situated within the Kerala State Science and TechnologyMuseum premises in Thiruvananthapuram. It is one of the most sophisticated and versatile planetariums in India. 


The marvellous planetarium complex has a centrally air-conditioned sky theatre, conference hall, workshops and a sound-studio.Priyadarshini planetarium is one of the most splendid planetarium of the country. The projector here can visualize almost the entire universe. It can visualize the sky on any day up to 12,500 years back or 12,500 years ahead. 




The Kerala State Science and Technology Museum lies adjacent to the planetarium. The museum has galleries on Electronics, Motion and Power, Electricity and Magnetism, Mechanics, Automobile Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering, Mathematics etc. The sole purpose of the museum is to provide extensive knowledge about the new dimensions of Physics to scholars as well as ordinary people. 




The museum park at the planetarium premises has numerous outdoor exhibits, which include models of rockets and airplanes. The planetarium complex opens everyday except Monday. The planetarium have shows at 10.30 am (Malayalam), 12.00 pm (English), 3.00 pm (Malayalam) and 5.00 pm (Malayalam). Specialty is that its an studio and similar to theater they will explain the whole video and stars and create a feeling that we are travelling in the sky.


Eclipse show in Planetarium

Explaining in Roof with Studio Rotating projector

Outside of plantorium

Star description

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK

Kaziranga National park is located in Assam its special froe its one horned rhinosorous.Home to fabled one horned Rhinoceros. This is also a world heritage site.Located on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River in the far North East of India, Assam, Kaziranga National Park covers an area of approximately 430-sq-kms with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass making it the ideal habitat for the Indian One-Horned Rhino.


Beside of course the great one horned Indian Rhino, the other major wild attractions include a large population of Indian Elephants, Indian Bison, Swamp Deer or Barasingha, Hog Deer, Sloth Bears, Tigers, Leopard Cats, Jungle Cats, Otters, Hog Badgers, Capped Langurs, Hoolock Gibbons, Wild Boar, Jackal, Wild Buffalo, Pythons, Monitor Lizards, etc. 


Kaziranga National Park is a birding paradise; the grasslands are a raptor country that can be seen on safari makes a remarkable experience. 


These include the Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Brahminy Kite, Pallas's Fishing Eagle, White Tailed Eagle, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle, Himalayan Griffon, etc. Huge numbers of migratory birds descend on the parks lakes and marshy areas during winters, including Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard and Northern Shoveller.


Buffalo in Kaziranga park

Road side view  Of park

flora In Water

special One horned Rihnos

Playing with child