Pune gets ready for Chandrayaan-3 landing with live screenings, musical evenings

“Students will be educated about all the milestones related to the Moon, from the discoveries of Galileo to Chandrayaan-3,” said Vinayak Ramdari, incharge of the school’s planetarium. Parag Mahajani, an astronomer, will be hosting the event. While 300 students of the school will attend the event physically, it will also be live-streamed on the handle of DES Facebook and Youtube.

A live screening of the landing will also be held at The C V Raman Science Research Centre at the Matoshri National School, Warje, which was officially inaugurated last week by Pramod Kale, an ISRO scientist.

Leena Bokil, President of the Centre said, “The legacy should continue. C V Raman mentored Vikram Sarabhai, Sarabhai mentored Pramod Kale, who is my mentor, and now as a space educator, I wish to instil the spirit of exploration in my students.” After the school hours, students along with their parents will visit the school for live screening.

The AARO astronomy club will share a live telecast via ISRO on their YouTube channel with helpful inputs from their experts. “People who watch the landing don’t always understand technical terms, so our experts will do live commentary on our channel,” said Kailas Belekar, an astronomer and founder of the club.

The National Film Archive of India at Law College Road will live stream the landing on its theatre screen at 5:00 pm on Wednesday.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has successfully launched its attempt for soft landing on the moon. The previous attempt which was unsuccessful was merely three years prior when the results did not go quite as planned. However, this time, hopes and stakes are both higher than ever as India might just become the fourth country in the world to have a successful lunar landing. India would be behind only the United States, erstwhile Soviet Union, and China. (PTI Photo)

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The Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 vehicle with Chandrayaan-3 at the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre after the conclusion of a simulation of the entire launch preparation and process, in Sriharikota. (PTI Photo)

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The Chandrayaan-3 mission is spread over nearly 40 days with a possible moon rendezvous scheduled for August 23. (PTI Photo)

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The rocket - an LVM3 - was launched at 2:30PM today (July 14) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The mission is an unmanned one and aims to use an already hovering orbiter around the Moon. The orbiter was launched by Chandrayaan-2's communications and other support purposes. (PTI Photo)

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The Chandrayaan-3 mission is one of the highly anticipated events of the year. It is a milestone in space exploration for not just India, but the world at large the South Pole of the Moon (where the mission aims to land) has hardly been explored by humans. (PTI Photo)

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The Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 vehicle with Chandrayaan-3 at the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) commenced the 26-hour countdown for the launch at 1.05 pm on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik creates a sand art to wish good luck to ISRO scientists ahead of ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission, in Puri, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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People gather to witness the launch of ISRO's launch vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 rocket carrying 'Chandrayaan-3' at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Friday, July 14, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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A girl takes a selfie with the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3, the word for "moon craft" in Sanskrit, inside a temple in Mumbai, India, Friday, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo)

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Members of BJP perform Hindu rituals for the success of Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 inside a temple in Mumbai,, Friday, July 14, 2023. (AP Photo)

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People gather to witness the launch of ISRO's Launch Vehicle Mark-III (LVM3) M4 rocket carrying 'Chandrayaan-3' at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota, Friday, July 14, 2023. (PTI Photo)

IISER Pune Science Activity Centre has uploaded a two part series on YouTube, where Professor Bhas Bapat, Department of Physics, interacted with students and answered all questions about Chandrayaan-3. Around 150 students were invited, and the lecture and interaction were done in Marathi.

“A lot of literature about Chandrayaan and space in only available in English, we wanted to make it accessible to Marathi speakers and students,” said Ashok Rupner, Senior Teaching Associate, IISER Pune.

Jyotrividya Pratishthan, India’s oldest Association of Amateur Astronomers, will also host a live screening for a limited number of seats at the Yashwantrao Chavan Art Gallery, Kothrud, 5:00 pm onwards. The organisation is also coming up with an event, ‘Eyes In Space,’ an astronomical exhibition on space observatories, from August 24 to August 27 at the Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruha Art Gallery, Kothrud.