Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS

A student's club of TIET, Patiala.
We're into astronomy. Like, really into it.

[Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology @TIETofficial]

Love space science and astronomy?
Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society (TAAS), TIET organises Eureka 4.0 - daylong lecture symposium on 'Spectroscopy and Spectrometry in Astronomy' by India's renowned professors on Sunday, 22nd November 2020.

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

A proud day for the nation! #JaiHind 🇮🇳

[DRDO @DRDO_India]

In a historic mission today, India successfully flight tested Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV), a giant leap in indigenous defence technologies and significant milestone towards a #sashaktbharat and #atmanirbharbharat.

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

May the Fourth be with you! #StarWarsDay

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#lyridmeteorshower #Lyrids enjoy the fireworks

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Happy #EarthDay2020 folks!

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

#HappyNewYear 🎊

[ISRO @isro]

Today’s launch was the 50th launch of #PSLV & 75th launch from our space port in Sriharikota.

Thanks for your support.

[ISRO @isro]

All 9 customer satellites(from Israel, Italy, Japan and USA) successfully placed in their designated orbit by #PSLVC48

[ISRO @isro]

#ISRO
Top view of #PSLVC48, prominently featuring the bulbous payload fairing that houses #RISAT2BR1 & 9 customer satellites.
Launch at 1525 hrs IST on December 11, 2019

[ISRO @isro]

We are gearing up for the next launch !

#RISAT2BR1 & 9 commercial satellites will be flown onboard #PSLVC48 at 1525 hrs IST on December 11, 2019

Read more at https://t.co/leKS6Fx6Bn

[NASA @NASA]

The #Chandrayaan2 Vikram lander has been found by our @NASAMoon mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. See the first mosaic of the impact site https://t.co/GA3JspCNuh

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#ISRO #PSLVC47 @isro #PSLV #Cartosat3

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Do you know that on which rocket was MOM(mars orbiter mission) launched?

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

Here goes another successful launch of PSLV-XL. The name of the mission(PSLVC47) carries C beacuse along with Cartosat as its main payload it also carries 13 commercial nanosats from US.

[ISRO @isro]

Views of #PSLVC47 lift off from Sriharikota.

Mission Accomplished. Thanks for your support.

[ISRO @isro]

#ISRO #PSLV #Cartosat3
The launch of PSLV-C47 carrying Cartosat-3 scheduled on November 25, 2019 at 0928 hrs is rescheduled to launch on November 27, 2019 at 0928 hrs from Second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.

Stay tuned for more updates..

[The Royal Society @royalsociety]

Lunar eclipse (1682) 🌙 This printed image of the surface of the Moon shows the phases of the lunar eclipse, entered with brown ink. The eclipse was observed on 21 and 22 February 1682 by Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk.

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

Check this out https://t.co/XYiFSwMf1r

[Dibyendu Nandi @ydnad0]

Solar folks take note: The solar xray monitor onboard #Chandrayaan2 seems to do a better job at constraining the Sun's xray flux then GOES. Could be a good instrument to complement GOES flare flux data.

[Thapar Amateur Astronomers Society - TAAS @TAAS_Astronomer]

@BigelowSpace How do they calculate the probability so accurately

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Rooting for team India. Good luck, India! #Chandrayaan2 https://t.co/iWWSqPs4nz