Announcements

The Bangalore Astronomical Society's Annual General Body meeting and council elections (for 2009-2010) shall be held on Saturday, 10th of October 2009 at 4.30 pm at Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, High Grounds, Bangalore. We request all members* of the Society to kindly attend the meeting and participate in election by casting your votes.

Please confirm your presence by registering here.

The election itself is open to all the members and we encourage our members to contest for the the administrative posts as well as council positions. A detailed description of the council structure and responsibilities associated with each position is available here.

People interested may file their nominations here.

As most of you would've noticed, Bas.org.in experienced more than 120 hours of downtime. Although this must have proved highly inconvenient to people who read our site regularly, we will have to justify it in that it was the only resort, thanks to the lack of dedicated staff.

Nonetheless, we are now back up running upgraded and more reliable versions of necessary software we run as well as a bunch of new features and usability. Our focus will now be on enriching content on the portal to live up to some astronomy-usefulness as well as promote more cohesive networking. We also intend to go multi-lingual and bring out a kannaDa version of our site. Please write to us to help. Your cooperation is much sought!

Due to the lack of adequate testing, many sections might still be buggy. Error reporting is turned on purportly. If you notice something going wack (or a lot of error messages popping about), Please care to write to us about it.

Please register for outreach program to be conducted at your apartment, college, school, company or area in and around Bangalore. send email with details to info@bas.org.in

Event Co-ordinator : Naveen Nanjundappa

Message from IYA2009 Team regarding the outreach program.

Following the unprecedented success of IYA2009's 100 Hours of Astronomy, another series of events is being planned for 22-24 October 2009. This new IYA2009 Cornerstone Project is called Galilean Nights and will see amateur and professional astronomers around the globe taking to the streets and pointing their telescopes to the wonders that Galileo observed 400 years ago.

The focus of the project is sidewalk observations of the gas giant Jupiter and its moons, as well as allowing members of the public to observe the Sun, our own Moon and many more celestial marvels.