IISc Astronomy Club

Dear Sir/Ma'am SciChat is a concept where different people from different parts of the world meet

anyone had any success on sighting meteors through the thick cloud cover ?? !! :P On Thu, Dec 1, 2016

I certainly can't email them - they're on a machine in IISc, and I'm not in IISc. I have

The Iridium flare era is now a ending. http://www.universetoday.com/120761/iridium-next-set-to-begin-

Hello all A group of amateur astronomy enthusiasts of IISc intends to start an Astronomy Club at the

Friends, go through this link.. http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2004-bl86-to-sweep-close-on-

This is a really good scope. Buy it folks! I have a 5" Newtonian and a 3.5" Mak, but this

I just finished reading it and I highly recommend it. It maps the growth of cosmology from ancient

Starts Dec 1: https://www.coursera.org/course/introastro Abhijit

Yes! I have a 50mm refractor at home and I've gazed at the planets from home too. The Galilean

http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/07/india-consults-astrophysicists-over-border-ufo-sightings/ nirmal

nope, we dont. we are more an informal group of loosely interested ppl who share random events via

came across the paper which carried out this work. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001MNRAS.328..689C

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Listless-year-lies-ahead-for-sky-gazers/articleshow/

This could actually be interesting... http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/isons-new-meteor-shower/ -

*could not* actually :P Somnath Mukherjee Prof. Sosale Chandrasekhar's Lab Dept. of Organic

http://www.iiap.res.in/iiaoutreach/?q=node/18# also includes a talk by Prof. Biman Nath of RRI. other

the numbers just indicate intensity. the colors are false colors indicative of how bright the source

Orion is high up in the sky around 9/10PM, so it is super easy to learn how to read the sky. Mostly

Tried spotting them from the hostel terraces... Too much of light pollution from the surrounding

Astronomy Magazine's newslink on the Quadrantids meteor shower this weekend: http://cs.astronomy.

cloudy :( But I did get to see one bright meteor on the night of 12th at 8:17PM. I doubt it was the

Hello Srinath, The specs are available at the following location - http://www.iiap.res.in/files/

With all the clouds around in the sky, not sure if this is useful, but here is a link for the Perseid

Correction - this: http://www.phdcomics.com/arkyd/ instead of this: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-125_MAVEN_Name_to_Mars.html May 01, 2013 Dwayne Brown

And well arm-chair astronomers now have their first joural paper in an Astronomy journal.

People might want to mark their calendars for the next meteor shower this year - Lyrids are showing

Hi Siva, It would be very nice if we could merge the two. The only task required for that would be to

Ridiculous name for a comet, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Madhu N <madhu...@gmail.com>