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 »

One of the shocking news I heard yesterday was "Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao is no more"

Prof. G.T. Narayana Rao a very famous science writer and music critic has always been my inspiration to read scientific books and articles written in Kannada language. His expressive hold on the language and subject with wisdom, humor and a great deal of science takes the reader to another world.

Even at the age of 82 he was very active with his activities, discussions with his students, fellow men on astronomy, science and music. There is no doubt why he has inspired many people.

He had interacted with Nobel laureates like Sir C.V. Raman in Bangalore and astro-physicist S. Chandrashekar in Chicago. He has authored biographies of famous scientists.  read more »

The administrative meeting on 22nd June turned out to be very eventful. A huge gathering, with lots of council members, ex-council members and other members, settled at the venue about half an hour late, a BAS banner hung on the tree.

Lots of ideas poured in, lots of new plans were discussed. So what might be in store for BAS in a few months' time? Here are extracts from the interesting bits of the meeting:  read more »

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 »