SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY CELL, IIT MANDI
STAC is a club where one can explore every corner of the technical knowledge he/she has! Have a look towards what we do! You are encouraged to knock our doors anytime. :) If you feel like taking a session on Astrophysics/Robotics/Programming/Star-Gazing or anything related to STAC (Which is in fact everything ;) ), just write a mail to stac@students.iitmandi.ac.in.
Astrophysics
Core Astrophyisics and related Mathematics, from Black holes to String Theory, from Expanding Universe to BigCrunch, we discuss everything here!
Astronomy
Sky gazing, Messier Hunts, Sky Reading and what not! From studying Stellar evolution to operating telescopes (Even building one)!
Space Technology
Working on Radio Telescope, making our own balloon-sats and cube-sats, applying ML/DL algorithms for analysing the data collected by telescopes
Astro-photography
Having the privilege of living in a very serene place with amazing sky, some members are over-enthusiastic for capturing the night sky in the cameras..
Numerous competetions are organised by STAC covering varied aspects of knowledge. Winners of various competitions held under STAC and event details are featured here. Note there are many other events too! You will discover many of them this year.
Aurora
A paper presentation event held in the annual intra-college tech fest of IIT Mandi, Zenith. Shikha Suman(in photo) was the winner of this event. She gave nice presentation on fermi paradox.
WhatsUp
A successful event on a clear sky. Shreya Lanjewar was the winner followed by Arshita Kalra and Karthik Kathuria. They were supposed to locate as many messier objects as possible.
Hackathons
STAC organised hackathon in which we were supposed to extract astronomical data and make an interface for data analysis and results. Photo featuring the winning team, lead by Shreyas Bapat.
Pandora's Box
The second edition of Zenith observed a participation of 80. It was a written quiz focussing on Astrophysics covering the topic of Relativity too. Photo featuring the winner, Abhijeet.
Zenith is the annual intra-college Astrofest organised by the club. The astrofest saw a large footfall with enthusiastic astrophysicists talking about various amazing topics ranging from Black Holes to String Theory in "Aurora". Some Computer Science Enthusiasts did a week long hacking to create amazing applications. On the other side of campus of IIT Mandi, some students were participating in "Pandora's Box" to win cool prizes. This all was flavoured by some amazing talks by Dr. Arnav Bhavsar and Bhavya Bhatt.
A brief about our ongoing projects and what we plan to do in the future. We invite you to collaborate with us or/and sponsor our projects.
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A 12" Telescope is under construction. We have already made it's body and we are about to start with mount!
The challenge is to make it automatic!
3-day visit to Dongla Observatory and get permission to remotely access it
We are also planning to have one at our campus!!
We will organise a rocket making and launching workshop. This would surely be a great learning experience for us and thrilling too!
We will try to build a rover which can be used for extraterrestrial data collection. It would be first tested on hills of kamand!
Becoming part of SWAN project and install radio telescopes to initiate radio astronomy related research in our as well as nearby institutes.
An ambitous plan to make own blimp satellite which can send various observational data of atleast Mandi district, do image processing, DL, etc. on that data.
achievements/ great projects done by members of STAC
Bronze Medal in Star Cluster Identifier hackathon, Inter IIT Tech Meet 2018
Click hereEinsteinpy- an open source package for problems arising in General Relativity
Click hereMirapy- enables applying ML/DL techniques on astronomical data easy
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