AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram will have its next monthly public lecture session on 2nd June 2011, 5.30 pm at Kerala State Science and Technology Museum and Planetarium, PMG, Thiruvananthapuram. The session will be handled by Mr K P Prabhakaran, who is an expert in home-made telescopes. He will present a demonstration and sky watching session with the [...]

The monthly public lecture session of May 2011 was held on 5th May, 5.30 pm at our usual venue of Priyadarshini Planetarium, PMG, Thiruvananthapuram. This time it was a presentation and demonstration on how to utilize Stellarium software for an effective sky watching. The session was handled by Mr.Vaisakhan Thampi [...]

May 2: Jupiter and Mars just half degree apart, low in the East at the time of dawn

May 3: New Moon
May 7: Mercury and Venus just 1.5 degrees apart, low in the East at the time of dawn

May 7: Mercury Greatest Western Elongation

May 10: Jupiter, Venus and Mercury form a perfect triangle in the East [...]

Around 90 kids were there with us when they enjoyed combining patches of clear night sky with patterns from the Stellarium software at Thiruvananthapuram last week.Vyloppilli Samskrithi Bhavan organised a vacation camp for students called Maampazhakkaalam 2011′ .Last Thursday night,AASTRO people took them for a session exploring wonders of the night sky [...]

In our April meet up,Mr. B. Saharsh shared his ideas about a new model of universe,how the boundary of universe can be and so on.An effective discussion concluded that our present knowledge may not be sufficient to understand the actual structure of universe.AASTRO members,teachers, students and astronomy enthusiasts participated actively.

AASTRO will conduct monthly [...]