July, 2008

Today, on the 22nd of July 2008, The Bangalore Astronomical Society celebrates what it deems it's unofficial birthday. Exactly, two years ago, Seven of the BAS founding members met up in the lush green lawns of Cubbon Parkon a typical Bangalore evening to brainstorm upon what was to evolve to be a common interest forum for all astronomy enthusiasts in Bangalore.  read more »

There will be a BAS members' meet for the July month, at our regular venue Cubbon Park on Sunday the 13th.

Agenda includes the general meetup with members. Probable new topics include discussion about steps to preserve light pollution at Hosahalli, invitation of a professional to give a presentation, locations for future sky-observing trips etc.

I would like to also present my newly purchased astronomical equipment for our future BAS observing trips - a Celestron SkyMaster 20x80 big astro binocular! Expecting to have a good turn up. Bring your friends interested in astronomy along.

Venue: http://www.bas.org.in/Home/venues

Behind the main red building of City Central Library, and beside the Indira Priyadarshini Children's Library, in the main circular park.  read more »

It was a really successful and wonderful trip. Probably one of the most fruitful trips organized by BAS so far. The attendees were mostly Engineers from Texas Instruments, which made the trip highly educative. The primary agenda of the trip was to learn, in detail, the functioning of the Radio Telescope, the concepts and electronics behind it - and this purpose was completely met.

We started off from Texas Instruments, Bagmane Tech Park, C.V. Raman Nagar at about 8:30 AM. With a few pick ups on the way, we made it to Gauribidanur pretty fast. On the way, we discussed about radio astronomy, antennas, interferometry, and GPS! We met Dr. Ramesh of IIA, with whom we had been in correspondence, and he extended us excellent hospitality.  read more »

Casual observing at Hosahalli after Gauribidanur trip. Interested folks can contact Amar. Since Hosahalli is only 10km diversion from the Gauribidanur route, people can join on the way back.  read more »