Vishnu Reddy will speak about eclipses in India

• A number of years ago, I communicated with Vishnu as he was interested in asteroids and furthering his education with astronomy. While I never was able to meet him personally, I assisted and told him about some universities and some places he might want to contact in the US. One thing led to another and he achieved his degree in Astronomy. A great accomplishment.I've spoken by email on off over the years. Now I see he will do a talk about the upcoming eclipse (see below) . Congrats and more.
  

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• Talk by Vishnu Reddy - something interesting for the Total Solar Ecl

  Posted by: "nandivada_rathnasree" rathnasree63@yahoo.co.uk nandivada_rathnasree

  Sun May 31, 2009 6:56 pm (PDT)

  
  
  
  For those in Delhi:
  
  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