Tag Archives: variable stars

Make your own sky map

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

We live in the age of photo-realism, be it for maps of the world or of the sky – it is a realism that not long ago was beyond the reach of even our vision. That is why even though … Continue reading →

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A note on Cepheid variables: reproducing the study of the period-luminosity laws

Posted on September 4, 2017 by

In the 13th year of our life, when the skies of our city were still tolerably dark, we observed two stars Persei (Algol) and Cephei from our balcony which faced north on every night they were visible. Thus, we reproduced … Continue reading →

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nakṣatra-darśanam

Posted on August 7, 2016 by

Varoli had just completed the synthesis of the xanthine coupled with hydroxymethyluracil and diaminotriazine to test an interesting hypothesis of Somakhya regarding a particular class of DNA-binding proteins. She was putting in considerable effort to finish it off by the … Continue reading →

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Remembering Raghunathachari

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

We do not intend to recount the biography of Chintamani Raghunathachari as it is publicly available to anyone interested in the matter. But our intention is simply to talk a little about his life and times. He lived at a … Continue reading →

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