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Venue: JWSS Astro Camp, Kavalur. Coordinates: 12.6267° N, 78.7505° E Date: The night of 17 Jan 2026 6:00PM to 7:00PM: Telescope Setup and Astronomy interaction : Suresh gave an overview of the star party followed by a Q&A on astronomy. 7:15PM: Saturn: We started the observation with Saturn. Rings were still fully edge on. One of the moons were visible along the plane of the rings close to the rings. Most likely Rhea. 7:54PM Cassiopeia and Andromeda Galaxy: First DSO target w

Start Party (a.k.a. Stargazing session) is an event conducted by amateur astronomers to spend a night under a star-filled night sky and do observation of celestial entities through naked eye or through telescopes/binoculars. It is normally conducted on a new Moon day when the sky is the darkest without the moonlight. Typically, winter is the best time for stargazing, as the atmosphere will have the least convection currents, making the sky that much clear. What to observe on

Venue: Gogo Camping, Kavalur, TN ( 12.5780° N, 78.8130° E ) Date: The night of 26 April 2025 A group of us consisting of 17 adults and 11...

Nature is the visible representation of an invisible God. Yet, we do not have a festival that celebrates it. Every celebration these days...

These are questions received from children of Grade 6 during a session on Astronomy and Sustainability that was delivered to a school in...

Venue: Jungle Mount Adventure resort (12.213611° N, 75.608333° E) Date: The nights of 22 and 23 April 2023 This is an observation log of...

Venue: Casagrand Luxus Amphitheater Here is a summary of the third edition of Khoj that took place on 19 February 2023. Previous editions...

Venue: The beautiful amphitheater of Casagrand Luxus My son,Thushar, fielding questions on cell biology. Here is a summary of the second...

#CandleInTheDark Happy Pongal, Makara Sankranti, Bihu, Lohri and Uttarayan! An occasion to worship our life giving star, The Sun. I asked...

The bad weather did not dampen the spirits of my neighbours as they came together, both children and adults, to make the first edition of...

#CandleInTheDark HAPPY VISHU! It's spring time and it's festive season as many states in India are celebrating the traditional New Year...

Reflections of an environment conservation evangelist and IT professional Picture credit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-use-dy...

Venue: GoGoCamping, Kavalur. 15.2972° N, 75.9347° E Date: The night of 13 Feb 2021 6:30PM: 1 day old crescent Moon: We started the...

It was Jan 2022. My community was in a lockdown due to the ongoing pandemic. With everyone locked up inside their home, I thought this is...

Nearly a century ago, on the night of October 6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier...

Please read Part 1 before reading this blog Hope life has been treating you all very well and you were not being subjected to the...

You get up in the morning and see that sun is rising in the east and by the time it sets, the stars will take center stage. In between...

So much has been written about BBMP’s callousness in cutting down trees in the name of road widening that nobody seems to talk about the...

Picture Credit: © Greenpeace / Alex Hofford In June 2019, I wrote to Colgate with the following suggestion: Billions of plastic...

I am scared. I am scared because I do not have answers to the questions my grandchildren, potentially living in a hostile planet caught...