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Tag Archives: variable stars
Make your own sky map
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
Posted in Heathen thought, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, globular clusters, nakShatra-s, nebulae, open clusters, sky, star chart, stars, variable stars
A note on Cepheid variables: reproducing the study of the period-luminosity laws
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
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, Cepheids, Classical Cepheids, distance modulus, LMC, Magellanic clouds, nebula, period-luminosity law, pulsating stars, stars, variable stars
nakṣatra-darśanam
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
Posted in Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, Hyades, Life, open cluster, origins, Pleiades, stars, Story, variable stars
Remembering Raghunathachari
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
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, variable stars
