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🌞Eclipses 🌚  are heavenly visual feasts of celestial bodies hide and seek game with light and shadow. Indeed, they are rare events ! We need to be in the right place 🗺 and at right time  ⌚ to watch an eclipse unfurl. 💥How about watching a future eclipse now ? Yes, it is possible !   Curious to know ? 🤔 We can simulate it in our PC 💻 and enjoy. No need to travel far off. It would be truly interesting to watch it in advance and later wait at the right place to witness it. ❓ How to simulate a heavenly event ? Use the free open source Astronomy software  "Stellarium"  - to enjoy the realistic sky.⭐🌟⋆ It can be downloaded at  https://stellarium.org/ Set the location (latitude, longitude), change the time, play and watch !!! This would be really interesting and rewarding activity.  Now, let us see how an  Annular Solar Eclipse of  26 December 2019  📅 look like. An Annular Solar Eclipse takes place when the Moon is more farther from the Ea

Our paper published in the Atmospheric Science Letters on different types of clouds during monsoon phases. The study was mainly carried out using Ka-band doppler weather radar of IITM. https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asl.847 Chakravarty, K., Pokhrel, S., Kalshetti, M., Nair, A. K. M., Kalapureddy, M. C. R., Deshpande, S. M., … Goswami, B. N. (2018). Unraveling of cloud types during phases of monsoon intra-seasonal oscillations by a Ka-band Doppler weather radar. Atmospheric Science Letters , 19 (9), e847. http://doi.org/10.1002/asl.847 https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.847

Our article "Enhanced daytime occurrence of clouds in the tropical upper troposphere over land and ocean" published in Atmospheric Research  Gupta, A. K., Rajeev, K., Sijikumar, S., & Nair, A. K. M. (2018). Enhanced daytime occurrence of clouds in the tropical upper troposphere over land and ocean. Atmospheric Research , 201 (October 2017), 133–143. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2017.10.018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809517302235