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March, 2008
Yelagiri Star Party
As the observing season ends, this might be our last star party for a few months to come. Dr. Suresh and friends from Chennai will be joining us at Yelagiri. Landmark hotel details are being worked out by Dr. Suresh and as of now the deal with the resort is that we will be charged Rs 1300/- PER PERSON including stay and food. This amount needs to be paid to the hotel directly. Transportation to yelairi and back will be worked out once we have enough information about participants. read more »
Hello Newcomers!
A sincere hearty welcome to all new entrants to BAS from all of us! It's great to see how BAS has reached out to several astro-freaks especially by the Sunday TOI article, and got them together under one roof. There have been several common questions by members regarding telescopes, activites, meets and other BAS activities. We hope to get all of them resolved.
Now that we have entered the monsoons (this year was bad...with only 2 clear months!) observations would evidently go down, but not for long. We would have to also concentrate on other aspects like resource-building, meetings for forming agendas, outreach sessions at various places and lots more. read more »
Hi everyone
Hi,
My name is Shreyas.I'm 9 years old,studying in Bishop Cotton Boy's School.I will be going to 4th grade now.
I am very much interested in astronomy, especially star gazing. I also love reading books about them.
I have a Celestron telescope with me. I like to meet all members, & become a member myself & would like to have the guidance in this regard.
I want guidance to use telescope & gaze the heavenly bodies. I also like the group activities, as its my vaccation & want to utilize the best.
Shreyas Bharadwaj.V
Telescope
Hi All,
I have joined this forum very recently, as am being one of the astro enthusiast am planning to buy a telescope.
My budget is 12k - 13k , need some guidance on the confugrations/specifactions.
Is it advisable to get from US ir in India in terms of cost.
Regards,Vijay read more »
Telescope
Hi All,
I have joined this forum very recently, as am being one of the astro enthusiast am planning to buy a telescope.
My budget is 12k to 13k , need some guidance on the confugrations/specifactions.
Is it advisable to get from US ir in India in terms of cost.
Regards,Vijay
Happy to see BAS ..
A good initiative; BAS, for which i was searching for long time. I am deeply interested in the field of astronomy and astrophysics. Expecting good outputs from BAS involving research studies/papers etc.
Regards,
Shrishail
Galilean Telescope
Hi all,
I'm Karthik, a newbie to the society but have lots of interest in this field.
I have a Question for all :
Can we have a simple Telescope built in home which is so-called Galilean Telescope?
If yes, then what are the components required and what are the procedures involved in constructing them.
Please suggest.
Thank you.
Telescope Making the 16" Newtonian
16" grinding shedule.
Buy a Telescope
I want to buy a good telescope.
Can some one suggest me where can i find the telescope shop in Bangalore.
Thanks
First step.
Hello there....I have just joined this society and really excited about it. I had attended one of the meetings at Cubbon Park, which was for the 1st anniversary of BAS's inception I was impressed by the kind of work you guys were doing. The equipment, the photography, the plannning..everything that went into it was quite tidy. I was a little apprehensive about all this, but Amar was very friendly. He showed me around and made it easier for me. I really want to contribute to all that you guys do.
Whenever I look at your posts on Yahoo Groups MU, I can't make head or tail of it. That is a really turn off for me......other wise the pictures that you sometimes post are amazing.
So I am really looking forward to spending quality time woth you guys.
BAS Meet + Astrophotography Session?
This BAS meeting will be held at
18 - B2, Krishnanagar Apartments, Annasandrapalya (Near HAL Kalyanmantapa), Bangalore -17
Astrophotography basics tutorial is being planned and will be organized on need basis.
Contact:
Hemant Hariyani: 9845297169
Here is the wikimapia link for Krishnanagar Apartments.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=12.960983&lon=77.673082&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2
Please plan to attend.
Hemant read more »
Processing wide-field astrophotos
I've my own weird way to process wide field astrophotos, which I've blogged about here:
http://kstars.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/processing-orion/
That's Shashank's Orion shot from Shivanahalli used as an example.
Minutes from "School Outreach at Lakshmisagara village." on 02/29/2008 - 15:00
Minutes for: School Outreach at Lakshmisagara village. from 02/29/2008 - 15:00 to 02/29/2008 - 16:30
Attendees: (Users) naveenln
It was fantastic outreach program for kannada medium village students of 8th and 9th standard.
I discussed the basic structure of solar system. Solar system was illustrated in action with students participating as planets, sun and comet.
The saturn rings and comet's tail was fantastic :)
1.5 hours just passed by with these kids and the questions from all over the class, I was satisfied. I have lit the candle in their mind.
Later I had a naked eye observation session. stellar evolution and stars were discussed.
School Outreach at Lakshmisagara village.
An outreach event has been planned for about 40-60 astronomy interested students at Sri Basaveshwara high School, Lakshmisagara village. Tarikere.
Agenda of the outreach are
Solar system and Astronomy.
Venue : Sri Basaveshwara high School, Lakshmisagara village. Tarikere.
Time : 3:00 pm till 4:30 pm
you are welcome to join this session :) read more »
Star Party at Yelagiri - Report
Yet again, we had the usual aggregation of Amateur Astronomers from Chennai and Bangalore at Yelagiri Hills, near Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu.
The attendees from Bangalore were Hemant Hariyani, Amar Sharma, Neetesh, Pavan Kumar Sharma, and Mr. Byju. Dr. Suresh Mohan, myself and my friends Prasanna Ramaswamy, Vinay Hegde and Prakash Mohan drove down from Chennai, and Arun Bharadwaj joined us from Trichy. read more »
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