Hello, there will be a public lecture by Vishnu Reddy, at the Nehru Planetarium,
New Delhi, at 5 PM on the 3rd of June 2009.

Vishnu Reddy has become a legend among the amateur astronomy circles in India
and his is a truly inspiring story in terms of his madness for astronomy which
led him to becoming a PHD student in Astronomy at the University of North
Dakota, having started out as a journalist at Asian Age, in Delhi. Along the way
- discovering 22 main belt asteroids!

Please do see here

http://nehruplanetarium.org/taarewiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.GodhooliPublicLectures

For the details of his talk on search for Vulcanoids during a Total Solar
Eclipse.

The topic sounded strange to me - I spent an enjoyable day or two learning about
Vulcanoids - hypothesised asteroids orbiting the Sun closer than Mercury. SOHO
and Messenger spacecraft data is being used to search for these. The exciting
possibility seems to be that amateur astronomers can do this too, during a Total
Solar Eclipse!

Do be there at 5 PM on the 3rd June at the PLanetarium, to find out about this
and meet Vishnu.

Rathnasree, Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi