KNB Celebrates Transit of Venus

Kamala Nimbkar Balbhavan celebrated this century’s last transit of Venus on the airfield of Phaltan. KNB had made arrangements to facilitate the viewing of this rare natural phenonmenon by providing solar filters and a telescope to take the iamges of sun. A small informative poster exhibition was organized as well.

People started gathering on the airfield from 6 in the morning but it was very cloudy. Although the sun was invisible, the KNB had made the phenomenon available on Stellarium software.    

Finally at around 8.30 the sun was out of the clouds and people could see the dot of the Venus on the face of the sun with the help of solar filters. The Venus was seen most clearly in the image taken with the help of the telescope.

The students, teachers and the residents of Phaltan enjoyed all the excitement of the event. People praised KNB’s attempts of arranging such unique activity.