Hi all, we’ll be doing a beginner friendly astronomy workshop & a star party on this coming weekend (May 4-5). The location will be near Madurantakam about 100km from Chennai. We’ll be leaving Chennai at around 10am on Saturday and will be back on Sunday morning by 10-11am. We’ll look into carpooling and transport details a couple of days closer to the event. If you’re interested, do register in the form here.. We’ll keep the form open till Wednesday 4pm. Please note that we have a headcount cap and might not be able to accommodate everyone. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

Hi i am beginner and how do you measure the light pollution of your area to a better view to the sky,it would be great if anyone guide me through this …i mean if there is any app or light meter …or maybe it’s too soon to get light meter if there is one … 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Suggest some spots in and around Chennai to get good astro pics. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

I took this from a village called Germalam in Tamil Nadu a few days ago. It was a great Bortle 2 sky ISO 3200 20sec exposure Stacked 15 (10 star images, 5 darks) images in Sequator F2.8 Canon 5D Mk4 at 24mm This is one of my first Milky Way photos I took and processed 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

Hello people…as you guys suggest i am stargazing via some mobile app …though i thought maybe a perfect guide would do lot of help…if there is any YouTube channel which does that or is there any possible way I could learn from some resources the suggestions would be great help thank you 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

So since i am a beginner where do i start and by your comment suggestions i did try identify stars and planets by naked eyes but i don’t know which is star and which is planet and i just used this app but I was not able to understand it i am slow learner so it’s been alway difficult for me so i kindly ask you to guide me 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Hi I am Naren …I am instead in astronomy…and I would like to learn lot about stars and space …and i am very much interested in stargazing and observing , i would like to attend any events regarding space and stuff…so pls do notify me it would be great help and i eager to learn from you people 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic ..read more

Greetings everyone! Sharing a condensed report on our stargazing session - and this time in a remote farm house, with minimal light pollution. We were finally able to spot the comet 12p with the help of binoculars & telescopes. Lady Luck shined on us post the sunset to give us a super clear sky, making a bunch of messier objects visible. We were able to spot/ observe: Comet 12P, Orion nebula, Eta Carine, Omega Centauri, the faint arm of our Milky Way, among other usual objects like Pleiades, Jupiter, Mars. In fact, the sky was so clear that we spotted 4-5 satellites in the sky! We had to ..read more

This images were taken through my new telescope. Hope y’all like it Note: Always use proper safety equipment while doing solar photography. Never to observe sun without solar filters. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more

I’ve been trying to have a glimpse of the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks for about about a month, which only comes to “visibility” after dusk and I almost gave up on it due to the Bortle 7 sky here and the never-ending haziness, especially near the horizon. And being at a lower altitude of 13 degrees doesn’t help either. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic ..read more