Khagol 119

| KHAG L | No. 119 - JULY 2019 | 13 TelescopeMakingWorkshops IUCAA SciPOP in collaboration with Latur Science Centre, conducted a telescope making workshop during April 15 - 18, 2019. Totally 195 small refracting telescopes were made by students of classes VI to XII under the guidance of Tushar Purohit, whowas the resource person fromIUCAA. During April 27 - 28, 2019, a similar telescope assembly workshop was organised at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Astronomy Club, at Gandhinagar. The students assembled 15 reflecting telescopes. During June 19 - 23, 2019, a telescope making workshop was organised at Kendriya Vidyalay, Bhopal, in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar. Twenty larger (5 inch) reflecting telescopes weremade by school teachers. Astronomy Lecture, at Jyotirvidya Parisanstha As part of the summer astronomy camp organised by Jyotirvidya Parisanstha, Pune, a lecture on Multi-wavelength and Multi-messenger Astronomy was delivered by Samir Dhurde on May 3, 2019. On May 16, 2019 Shivom Gupta delivered a lecture on Exoplanets. Around 50 participants attended the camp. TMT Outreach Week, at Vigyan Samagam,Mumbai. The IUCAA SciPOP personnel were representing the LIGO-India and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) projects at the Vigyan Samagam Science Megaprojects exhibition held at Mumbai during May 27 - June 9, 2019. With the guidance from project leaders, over the past few months, a set of ten posters, a collection of short films as well as some interactive and live demos have been put together. These are now a part of a grand pavilion showcasing