Hi All, We (me, Nilesh Desai, Ganesh Kale, Girish Vaze & Swapnil Kore) went to Lonavala, for meteor shower observation & Photography. The Sky was cloudy by the...
Looks like Leonids 2009 is going to be quite favorable for India http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/10nov_leonids2009.htm?list159271 [Non-text portions of...
Hi, Recent analysis shows that wipe out of dinosaurs may have caused not really due to Chicxulub Impact but due to Shiva crater centered at Bombay High. Read...
Hello, Happy Diwali to all the members of khagol mandal. I request you to avoid bursting crackers (as far as possible). Crackers are disaster to the ecological...
Hi All The year 2009 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first astronomical Observation through a telescope by the great Italian scientist Galileo...
I have just tested out the Ustream.tv webcast set up for the Public Lecture and the Workshop on Ep Aur. However, we do not yet have the fast internet...
At the Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, the following might be of interest to many: we are trying to do a webcasting with a chat window open, so online...
Hey Guys, Saw this forward on one the yahoo groups.....it is indeed very interesting, the reason I am forwarding this here, is want your esteemed opinion about...
Dear All, Our AAA (Bombay), born in '77 is revived again with enthusiasm and passion after a long slumber in the "International Year for Astronomy IYA-2009" to...
Hi!! has any one in the group has done spectroscopy at amateur level. It will be exciting to graduate from visual observation and astro-photography to...
There is nothing new in the solar eclipse. Solar eclipse is described in Mahabharata also. There is a description of Sun rising in two parts on Kartik Krishna...
Hi all, This is my 3rd mail in a day to group.You see, I am improving. After the weather trick of TSE, making it 2nd lost case in10 yrs for KM members, we...
Hello, we were clouded out at Katni, have just a few partial phase images and a dramatic video of the ambient darkening and brightening during totality....
Almost all of the country from just a little to the south of Delhi, can see the Antares occultation tomorrow evening. Some useful information is placed here: ...
Dear All Here are few glimpse of TSE (Total Solar Eclipse) TSE - Trip I joined two local "SingAstroian" (an online astro forum/club in Singapore} to visit...
Dear all, watch the Total Solar Eclipse 22nd July 2009 from Dondaicha, Dhule District, Maharashatra, India. you could clearly see how light intensity drops and...
Hi ppl, i had gone to Ukai dam on Tapi river, Gujarat, in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the Eclipse. well not to tell it was overshadowed with Heavy rains!!...
hi all, heavy rains washed out the eclipse forme. I could not make it to the totality beltbut then it rained a lot in my city. it is clear and sunny today....
Dear All, Subject: Announcement of TSE 2009 and Opening of AAAS Amateur Astronomers Association of Surat (AAAS) is announcing to celebrate the biggest event of...
Hello eclipse chasers I intent to go to bodhgaya ,, a place in gaya district of bihar ..a nice place as far as monuments are concerned . its one of the safest...
This year has been declared as astronomical year and some articles are published in newspapers about astronomy. All articles repeatedly praise only western...
The National Council of Science Technology and Communication (NCSTC) would be holding all India amateur astronomy meets sometime later this year. They would...