As a part of its monthly public lecture series,AASTRO is going to conduct a presentation on ‘Basic Techniques on Astrophotography’ on August 4th , Wednesday at Kerala State Science and technology Museum, Thiruvananthapuram. The talk will be delivered by Shri.Ramachandran who is a member of Royal Astronomical Society and  an expert in this field. This is the 9th [...]

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AASTRO Club Kottakkal published a newsletter on “Lunar day” commemorating Moon human lunar landing on July 2oth,         1969. The news letter is first of its kind and entirely composed by AASTRO Club members who are upper primary            students.The news letter can be found here.  AASTRO [...]

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AASTRO office bearers,members and enthusiasts , as a part of  its monthly meet up,  will gather at Kerala state Science & technology Museum on Wednesday, 5.30 PM. AASTRO will arrange public lectures and discussions regarding  vivid topics in astronomy, astrophysics,physics, space science and allied subjects. For July, we have a presentation on Relativity theory by Shri.K.S.Skaria IPS followed [...]

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Jupiter has lost one of its prominent stripes, leaving its southern half looking unusually blank. Scientists are not sure what triggered the disappearance of the band.Jupiter’s appearance is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere – one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.But recent images taken by amateur astronomers [...]

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AASTRO Thiruvananthapuram Chapter will have a meet on Thursday,13th may at Kerala State Science & Technology Museum and Priyadarshini Planetarium,PMG junction.AASTRO President Prof.K.Pappootty will preside the meeting and Planetarium director Shri.Arun Jerald Prakash and other eminent personalities will make their presence.upcoming and ongoing activities and programmes will be reviewed and plans for school & college activities will be shaped [...]

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AASTRO Kerala Thrissur chapter inaugurated yesterday here by  by Prof K Pappootty  CMS Higher Secondary School, Thrissur on a  function  presided by eminent amateur astronomer and AASTRO Thrissur Chapter Chairman Shri.P R Chandramohan.District coordinator Shri.K S Sudheer gave the welcome address and Shri.Venugopalan delivered vote of thanks.Astronomy and science popularisation activists ,teachers,students and public from various parts of [...]

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Amateur Astronomers Organisation,Kerala will have its  district fraction in Thrissur inaugurated   by Prof.K. Pappooty on may 8th at  CMS School Thrissur.Eminent personalities like All India People Science Network president Dr.M.P.Parameswaran,Kerala Shasthra Sahithya Parishad President Shri.Kavumbai Balakrishnan,AASTRO Thrissur Chairman Shri.P.R.Chandramohan and leading shots will make their presence.An interactive session on astronomy also was arranged for members and public soon after the official inauguration.Enthusiasts engaged with [...]

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As a part of its Astronomy month activities, AASTRO Kozhikode chapter organised a session for its members  on 30 Apr 2010 at
Parishad Bhavan Kozhikkode. Shri.A. Surendran ,AASTRO resource person lead the session regarding  basic techniques for
sky watching. Around fifteen members of the organisation took part for the programme. Kozhikkode is one among the most [...]

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AASTRO Kollam district chapter had an astronomy outreach program “Jyothishastra sandhya”  at Swathanthrya Samara Vaayanashala,Nellimukku,Kuzhimathicadu on April 17th,2010.AASTRO resource persons Shri.Ajirajan Pillai and Shri.Sujith M Prasad took astronomy classes to students and public. More than 50 people turned up for the program which was associated with Kollam Library council.

Students and public actively took part [...]

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AASTRO Thrissur District Chapter will have its first get together on Monday,19th April at KSSP Parisara Kendram,Thrissur by 4    o’clock in the evening. Astronomy enthusiasts and science popularization activists will take part in the meet.Thrissur district chapter     will frame activities and programmes for the coming days and will have discussion [...]

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