April, 2008

I got the opportunity to conduct this event due to Mr Subir of Infosys, who resides in a layout in Jigani (a couple kilometers after Bannerghatta Circle). The event was supposed to be conducted for some odd 30 children, aged 6-14 yrs and few of their parents, staying in his locality.

We picked up Hemanth's 12" scope from his residence by afternoon and headed off for Jigani in his Wagon R car. Surprisingly, we've always had problems transporting the huge scope around, however this time it was so comfortable with the scope's mount and tube, there was no cramping at all! We were little late leaving from city and it was easily some 35 odd kilometers we had to cover from Airport to Bannerghatta.  read more »

BAS Volunteers Chandrashekhar and Pavan conducted an outreach session for the Children participating at the Summer Camp Organized by URISE Vishwa Seva Foundation at the Foundation's Ashram premises on Thursday, the night of 17th April, 2008.

The equipment for the session included Mr. Hemant Hariyani's 12" Dob. While we reached the venue at around 7PM, The event itself could begin no earlier than 9:30PM as the children were still involved in other programmes. Both Chandrashekhar and I were then introduced to the crowd and the Ashram Volunteers. A breif felicitation ceremony followed, and we were gifted mementos by Shri Vasudev Guruji.  read more »

Taare Zameen Par,Yes this is what an outreach event is conducted for .Those enthusiastic young souls looking forward to study the night sky full of passion and ecstacy just waiting for somebody to take the initiative and show them the hidden paradise.  read more »

The Bangalore Astronomical Society is organizing an astronomy session for summer camp participants at the URise Ashrama, off Manchinbele, Near Doddaa Aalada Mara, Mysore Road.

The agenda shall involve a basic introduction to astronomy and night observing, coupled up with an interactive session.

Interested parties willing to volunteer for this event are requested to email pavan dot k dot murthy at gmail dot com.   read more »

BAS Members are conducting an observation cum photography session at Shivanahalli, off Bannerghatta on the 8th of Mar 2008.

Interested parties are welcome to join us.   read more »

The Bangalore Astronomical Society will be conducting two events on the ocassion of ISAN - 2008.

• ISAN @ The Forum Mall, Koramangala, Bangalore: This session shall start at 6 in the evening, and shall involve the observation of objects - The moon and Planet Saturn.
• Scouts camp, Kondajji, Davanagere: This shall involve an outreach event for children.

We invite your keen participation in both these events.  read more »

Myself, Narasimhamurthy and Alex reached the school at about 6 pm. Mr. Mohan took us for a small walk and explained the facilities provided by the institute. The hostel, Classrooms, Playground, Auditorium every bit of it was royal !!!

At 6:30 just after the sunset, I setup my telescope and explained the students and swamiji the working of telescope, about objects in night sky, constellations and planets. There were about 60-75 students.

Observation of moon, saturn, mars, few stars and binary stars were made.

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The Bangalore Astronomical Society conducted sessions at two different places:

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After the Yelagiri trip got cancelled, all of us decided to go to our usual observation ground in Shivanahalli near Banerghatta National Park. Luckily, a few members who would not have made it to Yelagiri did manage to make it.

The observation session was attended by eleven people: Amar, Pavan Sarma, Nitesh, Sriram, Jaya, Shuchi, Sowmya, Pradeep, Nagesh, Niveditha and Hemant (myself).  read more »

hi,i'm kinda new in here and ya i'm definitely very interested in astronomy,i'm just a student now,i just kinda finished my schoolin and am lookin forward 2 my future,o.k. these things apart,i do wanna get an inside view on any thing thats happening in space which ne1 of u are familiar of ,plz telll me abt such  or ne incidents like that,well apart from all this personal pleasure as i might say,  read more »

An outreach event has been planned for High school students at Shree Swaminarayan Gurukul - Bangalore

 Agenda of the outreach are

1. Basic observation tips

2. Mars, Moon, open clusters observation.

3. Discussion to create interest in Astronomy.

4. Astronomy film show ( if possible ) 

Instruments : 7X50 Binocular and 6 inch reflector telescope.

you are welcome to join this session :)   read more »