ASE 2010 plan?

[Sunil G.R.]

Hi,

Long back we had discussion and almost decided that Rameshwaram (Dhanushkodi) will be the best place to watch Annular Solar Eclipse (ASE) on 15th Jan 2010.

I think now is the time to plan for it. Within 1-2 days train tickets will be open to book (60 days prior).
Has anyone has the plan for it? Where to stay? etc...

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2010Jan15Agoogle2.html
http://aaasteam.blogspot.com/2009/07/please-click-below-link-to-see.html

I have an idea but may not be suitable.

My friends father is working in Kalpakkam (80km south from Chennai). Hope most you know it is famous for Nuclear Power Plant. His father will retire in less than a year. Before that he could get us the passes to visit the plant itseems!
I have an idea to visit it and also ASE in Rameshwaram.

http://www.kalpakkam.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpakkam

How many will be interested to visit it?
How many want to visit it first and then Rameshwaram or viceversa?

Jan 2010:
14 - Thursday - Sankranti
15 - Friday - ASE
16 - Saturday
17 - Sunday.

If you have any plan please share with me. I need to tell him the details few weeks before so that he can arrange for the visit.

I searched for some time about the train routes. Some of points i got.
1) No direct train between Bangalore and Rameshwaram (RMM).
2) Distance between blr-RMM and chennai-RMM are almost same! Journey will be around 11-13 hours.
3) There are trains between Chennai and RMM.
4) Frm Blr, it is better to go to Madurai and from there to RMM (if we want to go directly).
5) Madurai-RMM distance is 173km (around 3-4 hours journey).

Based on above points/constraints and dates, what will you suggest?

Thanks,
Sunil.

[Amar Sharma]

Hello All, What are the plans for the ASE-2010; location, logistics and dates? The optimum time for booking tickets (60 days advance) is getting over now. We havent even had a discussion on what place we've finalized. I personally would now like to join (after re-considering my interest) for the eclipse, but all depending on getting leaves from work. Let us finalize the location within this week. Those having researched on this please let us know. Thanking You. Amar. ************** Amar A. Sharma Signature : Had the presence of mind to "scan" some seconds for eclipse comets during the mesmerizing TSE-2009. Wonder whats in store for the ASE-2010! :-)

[Kiran Tikare]

Hi All,

I am interested to join on this trip.

 I guess Rameshwaram is the good place.

Thanks

Kiran

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[Narendra Gor]

Our Team from Gujarat will reach Madurai on 14January Night

We will start journey same night for Ramm and will be reach Rameshwarm in late night of 14th Jan.

Would any one suggest a place in Ramm for watching ASE?

Narendra Gor

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[Akarsh Simha]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:35:33PM +0530, Narendra Gor wrote:
> Our Team from Gujarat will reach Madurai on 14January Night
> We will start journey same night for Ramm and will be reach Rameshwarm in
> late night of 14th Jan.
> Would any one suggest a place in Ramm for watching ASE?
> Narendra Gor
> KAAC
> Bhuj Gujarat

IIT Madras Astronomy Club will be coming to Rameswaram as well. Our
itinerary looks like this:

Departure from Chennai on 14th, 8 PM or so.
Arrival in Rameswaram on 15th, 8 AM or so.
Observe eclipse from some random beach on 15th.
Stay over on 15th night doing some observation (and maybe some
astrophotography)
Leave back on 16th evening to Chennai.

We are about 40 of us at this moment.

Regards
Akarsh

[achyut]

hi sunil
I am in for the visit to kalpakam..... its better if we
visit it before eclipse....

[Aar]

Hi Any interesting thing going on in Kalpakkam these days ?  Because we are going there this week.. Warm regards, Rama --- On Mon, 30/11/09, achyut <achyutj...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[ravi babu]

Hi,

I'm in as well..

When are you planning to leave??

[Sunil G.R.]

Almost all the trains between Blr-Rameshwaram, blr-chennai, chennai-rameshwaram, blr-madurai are full around 15Jan (it is a festival and weekend time)!
Now it is 90 days in advance and not 60 days! We are already too late (but not very late i hope).

If you people are ready we can book our own cab/Tempo-traveller.

As per my earlier plan of visiting Kalpakkam, it may come around 2k for travelling around per head! Any more suggesstions, pls hurry up.

Thanks,
Sunil.

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We're slightly late, but here's the BAS announcement on this -->
http://www.bas.org.in/Home/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=8

We highly request all of you to sign up (even though you'll be on your own for
the most part), so that we can coordinate things to the extent that we can.
Although we don't intend to take up any responsibility of organizing anything
as of now, we *might* be able to work something out later. Strength in numbers
will be helpful.

Vivek will also post a formal announcement for the convenience of those who
don't read replies.

> Almost all the trains between Blr-Rameshwaram, blr-chennai,
> chennai-rameshwaram, blr-madurai are full around 15Jan (it is a festival and
> weekend time)!

Don't forget B'lore -> Trichy -> Rameshwaram as well. And there's always
Tatkal. Buses to Madurai will be aplenty. No calamity or cause for panic as of
now.

Best
_Pavan

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[Kiran Tikare]

Hope this information might be helpful with regards to planning Rameshwaram Trip (Weather Data, Budget Hotels, Near by  places)

http://www.mustseeindia.com/Rameswaram

kiran tikare

[Charitarth Vyas]

Hello Sunil,

We are, team from gujarat, going to Rameshwaram and we have finalised the plan and tickets has been booked. We will leave from Mumbai on 13th  noon by Nagarcoil exprerss to Madurai and will reach at nearly 7 pm 14th. from rameshwaram we will go to Rwaram.

Is it possible for you to take us to Kalpakkam power plant for visit after that? When are you reaching there?

Pl reply me on my Yahoo id: charita...@yahoo.co.in


Thanks for sharing this

Charitarth