PUNE: CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (CSIR-NCL), Pune, recently celebrated its 73rd Foundation Day.
Ajit Kembhavi, Professor Emeritus and Former Director, IUCAA, Pune, delivered the Foundation Day oration on “From Galileo to the James Webb Space Telescope: The Forward March of Astronomy.” A website for the Central Analytical Facility was also launched at the hands of the chief guest.
In his speech, Kembhavi talked about how astronomy has moved forward from the time of Galileo Galilei (who first did his observations) in 1609 to the present time. He highlighted the discovery of Jupiter’s satellites: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
He said that imaging, photometry, spectroscopy, polarimetry, and variability studies are the major tools of an astronomer. He talked about different telescopes, including Great Forty-Foot Telescope developed by William Herschel. He gave a couple of examples of modern telescopes like reflecting telescope, Himalayan Chandra Telescope, Palomar, 5m Hale Telescope, Very Large Telescope (VLT) from Cerro Paranal Chile, Segmented Mirror Telescopes like the Keck Telescope and Betelgeuse Telescope, Thirty Meter Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (launched in December 2021).
Earlier, in his welcome remarks, professor Ashish Lele, Director, CSIR-NCL, provided brief updates on significant progress made in projects aligned with the roadmap of CSIR-NCL for the 2020-2030 decade. The roadmap was developed keeping in mind the key challenges and opportunities presented to Indian Chemical and allied industries in view of some of the global megatrends such as climate change, sustainability, energy transition, supply chain disruption, self-reliance and the emerging deep tech innovation system, etc.
Ajit Kembhavi, Professor Emeritus and Former Director, IUCAA, Pune, delivered the Foundation Day oration on “From Galileo to the James Webb Space Telescope: The Forward March of Astronomy.” A website for the Central Analytical Facility was also launched at the hands of the chief guest.
In his speech, Kembhavi talked about how astronomy has moved forward from the time of Galileo Galilei (who first did his observations) in 1609 to the present time. He highlighted the discovery of Jupiter’s satellites: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
He said that imaging, photometry, spectroscopy, polarimetry, and variability studies are the major tools of an astronomer. He talked about different telescopes, including Great Forty-Foot Telescope developed by William Herschel. He gave a couple of examples of modern telescopes like reflecting telescope, Himalayan Chandra Telescope, Palomar, 5m Hale Telescope, Very Large Telescope (VLT) from Cerro Paranal Chile, Segmented Mirror Telescopes like the Keck Telescope and Betelgeuse Telescope, Thirty Meter Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, James Webb Space Telescope (launched in December 2021).
Earlier, in his welcome remarks, professor Ashish Lele, Director, CSIR-NCL, provided brief updates on significant progress made in projects aligned with the roadmap of CSIR-NCL for the 2020-2030 decade. The roadmap was developed keeping in mind the key challenges and opportunities presented to Indian Chemical and allied industries in view of some of the global megatrends such as climate change, sustainability, energy transition, supply chain disruption, self-reliance and the emerging deep tech innovation system, etc.
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