Khagol issue_116

Khagol (the Celestial Sphere) is the quarterly bulletin of We welcome your feedback at the following address: IUCAA, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India. Phone : (020) 2569 1414; 2560 4100 Fax : (020) 2560 4699 email : publ@iucaa.in Web page : http://www.iucaa.in/ University of Baroda, Vadodara; Anusree K. G., Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam; V e d a n t K u m a r ; S r e e l a k s h m i M., Government College, Madapally; A s h i s h M a h a b a l , C a l t e c h , USA; Yashodhan Manerikar, IIT-Madras, Chennai; Helen Mason, University of Cambridge, UK; Jose Mathew, IISER, Thiruvananthapuram; Jessica McIver, Caltech, USA; Anupama Mohanan, Government College, Madapally; Kunal Mooley, Caltech, USA; Shubhabroto Mukherjee, NIT, Tiruchirappalli; Alekha Nayak, PRL, Ahmedabad; Vishal Pabboj, SRTM University, Nanded; Deepak Pandey, University of Bonn, Germany; Surajit Paul, Savitribai Phule Pune University; Devraj Pawar, R.J. College, Mumbai; Ninan Sajeeth Philip, St. Thomas College, Kozhencherri; Pavlos Protopapas, Harvard University, USA ; An j a l i R a o , Un i v e r s i t y o f Southampton, UK; B. S. Ratanpal, M.S. Un i ve r s i t y o f Ba r oda , Vadoda r a ; Rajalakshmi T. R., Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam; Vanzarmawii, Mizoram University, Aizawl; and R. G. Vishwakarma, Universidad Autonoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. December 2018 Bobomu r a t Ahmedov, Ul ugh Beg Astronomical Institute, Uzbekistan; Raghav Arora, BITS-Pilani, Goa; K. G. Biju, W.M.O. Arts and Science College, Wayanad; Suresh Chandra,AmityUniversity, Noida; Goutami Chattopadhyay, University of Calcutta, Kolkata; Surajit Chattopadhyay, Amity University, Kolkata; Manish Chauhan, IIST, Th i ruvanan t hapur am; Sour av Roy Chowdhury, Vidyasagar College, Kolkata; Debaiudh Das, NISER, Bhubaneswar; Susmita Das, University of Delhi; Ujjal Debnath, IIEST, Shibpur; Nisha Godani, GLA University, Mathura; K. Indulekha, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam; Joe Jacob, Newman College, Thodupuzha; Rinku Jacob, Cochin College, Kochi; Tamanna Jain, University of Delhi; Charles Jose, CUSAT, Kochi; Shashi Kanbur, SUNY, Oswego, USA; Soumyodipta Karmakar, Amity University, Kolkata; Nishikanta Khandai, NISER, Bhubaneswar; Richa Kundu, University of Delhi; Sayan Kundu, IIT, Indore; Pradip Mukherjee, Barasat Government College, Kolkata; Kaushik Naskar, IIT, Kanpur; Nagayoshi Ohashi, Subaru Telescope, Japan; Manu Paranjape, University de Montreal, Canada; K.D. Patil, B.D. College of Engineering, Wardha; Ajay Potdar, IIST, Thiruvananthapuram; Adarsh Ranjan, IoA, Paris, France; Prabir Rudra, Asutosh College, Kolkata; Gauranga Samanta, BITS-Pilani, Goa; Abdus Sattar, Barasat Government College, Kolkata; Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Japan; Parth Shah, BITS-Pilani, Goa;Arijit Sharma, IIT, Tirupati; Nishant Singh, NORDITA, Sweden; Peter Tino, University of Birmingham, UK; Saku Ts u n e t a , Na t i o n a l A s t r o n om i c a l Ob s e r va t o r y o f J a p a n ; Pa n i v e n i Udayashankar, Mysuru; Bhargav Vaidya, IIT, Indore; Murli Manohar Verma, University of Lucknow; and Michitoshi Yoshida, SubaruTelescope, Japan. LongTermVisitors Ajesh Gulati, TMT Project Office, USA; and Dhruba J. Saikia, IUCAA. Visitors Expected October 2018 Dharam Vir Ahluwalia, IIT, Guwahati; Kabita Deka, Tezpur University; Prasun Dhang, IISc, Bengaluru; Tathagata Ghosh, IIT, Kanpur; David Hilditch, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Nitesh Kumar, University of Delhi; Sujata Kundu, Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata; Vishnu Namboothiri, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam; P. N. Pandita, IISc, Bengaluru; Rohan Pattnaik, IIIT, Bhubaneswar; Chayan Ranjit, Egra S.S.B. College; Divya Rawat, IIT, Kanpur; Pinaki Roy, Christ University, Bengaluru; Ranjan Sharma, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University; S. T. Khaiminthang Vaiphei, Manipur University, Imphal; and RamasamyVenugopal, SouthAfrica. November 2018 Samuzal Barua, Hojai College; Tomaso Belloni, INAF, Brera; Maitraya Kanta Bhattacharyya, IISER, Kolkata; Atreyee Biswas, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, Kolkatal; Subenoy Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Debika Choudhury, TIFR, Mumbai; Santosh Damayyawar, SRTM University, Nanded; Dipanjana Das, Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Sourav Dutta, University of Calcutta, Kolkata; Matthew Graham; Soumya Jana, PRL, Ahmedabad; A. S. Joshi, RRCAT, Indore; Kanti Jotania, M.S. matchstickds@gmail.com | KHAG L | No. 116 - OCTOBER 2018 | 16