Hi all check out photos of Aurigid Meteor Shower of 1 Sept 2007. http://www.sameerthakur.net/2007/09/2007-aurigid-meteor-shower-photos.html Sameer......
Hi friends Google has revamped their Google Moon maps site. You can now see little astronaut icons with info bubbles for specific moonlanding sites. ...
BIGGEST MOON MISSION SINCE APOLLO: JAXA launches 'Kaguya' lunar probe Japan's space agency took a big leap forward in Asia's undeclared space race Friday by...
Hi, Anyone interested???? On September 27, 2007, around 14.8h UT, Pluto passes extremely close to an 8.7-magnitude star, SAO 160793. This is the brightest star...
Hey Hrishi, How did you suggest to capture this event, as you know there is no actual occultation but pluto comes very close less than 1" from star. And if at...
More information about the occultation, and the effects of the relatively large angular diameter of the target star on the phenomena that might be observed, by...
A bold new mission to the Moon was launched today by the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). Chang'e-1 blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch...
Hi All Its realy amazing... After reading this post from Amar sharma I rushed to terrace with binoc and before i put my eyes to binoc i saw it distinct star ...
Hi All Today comet is clearly nebular and even more bright!!!! please checkout my observation log of Comet Holmes. I have posted 1 sketch and 2 photographs on...
I too observed the comet yesterday. I rushed to terrace to see the comet when I got its information through net. I was shoked to see the the comet naked eyes...
Hi All Today sky was little hazy, visually comet was almost same brightness as 25th oct. ~2.5 but through telescope size of comet is little bigger ~1.25 times...
HI Geeta I have uploaded Maps of Comet Holmes on our Group in folder Comet Holmes Maps. There are two maps one wide field showing near by constallations and...
Hi friends Check out photos of Comet Holmes from "Pic du Midi Observatory" What a amazing details you can see with big scope !!!! http://www.picdumidi.eu/ Have...
Hi All here are the beautiful pic of Comet taken by Nikhil Tungare on night of 2nd Nov, using his 10" Scope and Nikon DigiCam. http://www.sameerthakur.net/ ...
I am very sorry to inform of the death of Prof. K. D. Abhyankar after a long illness on Thursday, 8 November 2007 at Hyderabad. Prof. Abhyankar needs no...
Hi! I thought you'd be interested in this story from Science@NASA: Earth and Mars are rapidly converging. Relative speed: 22,000 mph. Contrary to rumor, Mars...
Hi all... While going thru The Times of India, i saw this article, have a read ..... NEW DELHI: Indian and German astronomers have jointly discovered,...
Read the following posted in one of the yahoo groups: Johannes Kepler performed an experiment to calculate the distance between earth and mars, and hence he...
See this. Photographs of saturn captured by cassini and processed by the team are put here. The team has categorized the photos in 3 groups viz. colour, black...
I am posting here a post from a yahoo group. Go through it. Ajay Talwar & Nilesh Vayada Present the Milky Way Voyage, in asociation with Science Popularisation...
See this site. It lists top 10 astronomy pictures of 2007(according to the Author of the site). All the pictures are awasome and must to see and read the...
Hi everyone, UNESCO has declared 2009 as the "International Astronomy Year" on the occasion of 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope. UNESCO & IAU will be...
Quite Interesting article. I like it for the way the author tries to pull up things in order to Confuse Common Readers and sort of mislead them. The natural...