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The workshop schedule is almost final now. Barring any last minute changes or cancellations this schedule should hold.

The workshop starts at nine in the morning and lasts till seven in the evening, with three breaks. Sunday, the third day, sessions are till two in the afternoon.

The topics in Blue are all indoor presentations. The topics in orange are all outdoor demonstration under the pleasant winter sun in the afternoons. Barring a very heavy fog in Delhi we should be holding "Live Eclipse Demonstration" sessions through pin-hole cameras, telescopes, automated eclipse photography, capturing shadow bands etc. (The dates of the workshop fall in the middle of fog season in north India, even a slight drizzle will bring fog in the subsequent days)

The third day is the all important Panel Q&A, where participants can ask questions from the speakers. All the speakers of SEW will be present as a panel to answer all participant eclipse queries. We suggest you prepare your questions well in advance of the workshop. All participants are requested to email their questions beforehand to this address: sew@eclipsechasers.org

Day 1 Friday 9th January, 2009
09:00 Inauguration Welcome, About SPACE, Eclipse Chasers Athenæum, Heliodyssey, Astronomica Mr. Sachin Bahmba 30m
09:30 Basics Understanding Basics of an Eclipse Mr. C.B. Devgun 30+10m
10:10 History Eclipses in India Since The Year 1800 Mr. Sheridan Williams 30+10m
10:50 History Historical Solar Eclipses and Transits in India Dr. N. Rathansree 30+10m
11:30 Tea      
12:00 Circumstances Mapping & Circumstances - Solar Eclipses - 2008 Annular in Antarctica Mr. Xavier Jubier 40+10m
12:50 Planning How to Plan a Total Solar Eclipse Adventure for Groups... Large or Small Mr. Eric Brown 30+10m
13:30 Lunch      
14:00 Outdoor Demo Public Demonstration Methods Mr. Vikrant Narang
Mr. Nikhil Pawar
45m
14:45 Outdoor Demo Capture the entire eclipse on one a 24x36mm piece of film. Mr. Ajay Talwar 45m
15:30 Planning We know where the eclipse is - now what about the Weather? Mr. Jay Anderson 45+15m
16:30 Tea      
17:00 Experiments Eclipse Photography Using a digital SLR, Image Processing Techniques Mr. Sheridan Williams 45+15m
18:00 Experiment Shadow Band Campaign In India Dr. Hari Om Vats 45+15m
19:00 End of First day's Proceedings
Day 2 Saturday, 10th January, 2009
09:00 Science Exploring TSE Effects on Surface and Atmosphere of the Earth Dr. Satyendra Bhandari 30+15m
09:45 Experiments Small Science from a Solar Eclipse: Shadow Measurements and Errors with Jantar Mantar Instruments during Solar Eclipse Dr. N. Rathnasree 30+15m
10:30 Experiments Solar Eclipse Experiments for Students Mr. James R Huddle 30+15m
11:15 Tea      
11:30 Science Success and Science at Solar Eclipses Prof. Jay Pasachoff 45+15m
12:30 Science Photo and Polarimetric Observations of the Eclipse Corona Prof. Ashok Ambastha 45+15m
13:30 Group Photo      
13:40 Lunch      
14:00 Outdoor Demo Eye Safety & Eclipse filters
Imaging the elusive Shadow Bands
Mr. Vikrant Narang 45m
14:45 Outdoor Demo Full Disk Solar H-alpha Imaging
Udaipur Solar Observatory
Dr. Sanjay Gosain
Mr. Sudhir Gupta
Mr. Dalchan Purohit
45m
15:30 Science Observing the Solar Corona from Space Dr. Dipankar Banerjee 45+15m
16:30 Tea      
17:00 Science Why does the Sun have a Corona? Dr. Arnab Rai Choudhuri 45+15m
18:00 Science Some Importent Achievements During the Total Eclipses of the Sun Dr. K Sinha 30+10m
19:00 End of second day's Proceedings
Day 3 Sunday, 11th January, 2009
09:00 Panel Q & A Open House
All speakers 90m
10:30   The Greatest Eclipse of 21st Century is Passing Through India Mr. Vikrant Narang 30+10m
11:10 Experience Experiencing a Total Solar Eclipse, Rapid sequence of events Mr. Ajay Talwar 15+10m
11:35 Image Processing As the eye saw it! Mr. Ajay Talwar 15+10m
12:00 Tea      
12:15 Outdoor Demo Best portable mounts for eclipse travel, Telescopes for eclipse imagery   30m
  Outdoor Demo Automated Eclipse Photography, Corona, Baily's Beads, Imagers for Solar Eclipse Mr. Ajay Talwar
Mr. Vikrant Narang
30m
13:00 Closing Closing the Solar Eclipse Workshop Mr. Sachin Bahmba 30m
13:30 End of Solar Eclipse Workshop