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SPACE is proud to announce that two students from Amity International School, Saket in India V. Sandhu & S. Sharma have made the preliminary asteroid discovery TOV6EC during All India Asteroid Search Campaign conducted by SPACE in collaboration with IASC in May 2012. Please note, preliminary discoveries must be observed a second time, usually within 7-10 days. If that happens, only then the Minor Planet Center (Harvard) redesignates them as provisional discoveries. Lets wait and hope this Discovery results in a Provisional Discovery. Congratulations on their hard work and dedication from SPACE!

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Yuri's Night tomorrow. Human Spaceflight became a reality 50 years ago with the launch of “Vostok 1” on April 12th, 1961, carrying Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who took his place in history as the first human to enter outer space. Exactly 20 years later, the United States embarked on a new era in spaceflight with the Space Shuttle (April 12th, 1981) launch. Designed to carry a larger crew and large volumes of cargo to orbit, the Space Shuttles became synonymous with human spaceflight for an entirely new generation of young people. When the next 20-year point arrived, that generation (often called “Gen X”) laid a new space milestone by connecting thousands of people around the world to celebrate and honor the past, while building a stairway to the future. That event was Yuri’s Night, and it continues to bring the excitement, passion and promise of space travel closer to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds. Yuri's Night http://www.yurisnight.net/ Yuri's Night hosts hundreds of parties and events around the world each April to celebrate the past and future of space exploration.

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Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of Carl Sagan’s untimely passing on December 20th, 1996. In order to honour this great teacher we are presenting the Carl Sagan Tribute Series which I recently came across on YouTube. This is a series of videos based on Carl Sagan's “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”. Excerpts from the audio book are edited together with pictures and videos set to a blend of awe inspiring music. http://discoveryenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/12/carl-sagan-tribute-series.html

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TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE on Dec 21st, 2010 As the year comes to an end, celestial geometry presents yet another opportunity to humans to see a wonderful phenomenon called total lunar eclipse but unfortunately, its not for us Indians. December 21st eclipse will not be visible in India as for us it will be happening in daytime. The lunar eclipse of Dec. 21st falls on the same date as the northern winter solstice. Is this rare? It is indeed, according to Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory, who inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is Dec. 21, 1638," says Chester. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one...that will be on Dec. 21, 2094." The Total Lunar Eclipse will occur on December 21, 2010 at 8:17 UTC (middle of the eclipse), i.e. at 13h 47.0m IST. Unlike solar eclipses, which are dangerous to look at without protective measures and last for only a few minutes, lunar eclipses can be seen unaided over a couple hours. No telescopes or binoculars are needed. Webcasts of the total lunar eclipse can be seen here: http://live.saros.org/ http://www.ccssc.org/ Find handout attached for more details about the Total Lunar Eclipse. total lunar eclipse dec 21 2010

SPACE recently concluded the Great Indian Star Count program (Oct 29th - Nov 12th) in collaboration with the Great Worldwide Star Count. This time SPACE turned in a record 1000 observations from all over India, which was 25% of the total number of about 4500 from over the world! Our reports have also generated media attention, as it calls attention to the fact that light pollution has now increased by as much as 5% in cities such as Delhi compared to last year. Such media attention and record number of observations have earned us recognition from the Director of the Globe at Night and Hands on Universe program who have sent their congratulations to SPACE and invited SPACE to join the Globe at Night program in March 2011. They have also requested C.B. Devgun to be a presenter at the IAU (International Astronomical Union) session on light pollution in July 2010 and talk about GISC and Project Dark Skies programs there. Thanks to all of you who have worked hard to contribute results to this program. It is a privilege to be recognized by an international organization of this stature and be invited to join their programs, and thus receive support in our push to create awareness of light pollution. Read some media clippings here on this program: http://news.in.msn.com/national/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4636275 http://www.hindustantimes.com/Delhiites-midnight-loss-97-stars-not-visible/Article1-623197.aspx http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article854884.ece

The second phase of Great Indian Star Count 2010 under Project Dark Skies and Great World Wide star count 2010 came to an end on 12th of November. SPACE collaborated with GWWSC to make people aware of the increasing levels of light pollution all over the world. It has been quite a learning experience for citizen astronomers/observers in India. We had more than 1000 observations from all across the country. We had contributions from masses and people who knew little about astronomy but were worried where the stars have gone and that has been a major task achieved by the Project dark skies where we continue to fight for the dark skies in the big cities. The observation data collected from more than 30 locations in India has been compiled and sent to the World Wide Star count programme where it will be analysed and will eventually can be seen on their results page Project Dark skies also made a major contribution to the Great World Wide Star Count programme this year by providing them the “Hindi” translation of their Activity manual which made it possible for lot of people in India to have access to this programme. We at SPACE and Project Dark skies would like to thank all those citizen astronomers, students, coordinators, educators and amateur astronomers who participated in this project to fight the light pollution in our country.

Greetings, Perhaps no name is better known in the global community of astronomy enthusiasts than that of John Dobson, popularizer of the widely-used Dobsonian telescope design that now bears his name who at age 95 has had a lifetime of outreach and activism. His determination to bring astronomy to the people was a driving force behind the creation of the sidewalk astronomy movement. Dobson who paved the way for astronomy outreach regardless of access to professional facilities, was interviewed in the first episode of a new series of webcasts, "Living Legend Series" - a project of Astronomers Without Borders' on Saturday, November 13 2010. You can watch the 5 part webcast videos at: http://www.astronomerswithoutborders.org/projects/living-legend-series This is the first of a continuing series of Living Legend Series webcasts presenting the people behind the names known throughout the worldwide community of astronomy enthusiasts, more will be coming soon. Enjoy!

Another feather in the SPACE cap! Vikrant Narang and Mila Mitra from SPACE have made a Main Belt Asteroid Discovery on Oct 29th, as part of the NEO Plus campaign. Details from Patrick Miller, Director as below: MBA Discovery!! -- IASC Greetings from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration Congratulations are in order. V. Narang & M. Mitra from S.P.A.C.E. in India discovered 2010 UJ98. This is a Main Belt asteroid discovery made on October 29th. During the current campaigns, there have been three MBA discoveries...one each from Japan, United States, and India: Object Students School Location Date 2010 UR2 Y. Yatsuyanagi Shizuoka University Japan 10/17/10 2010 UN8 C. Pannill Meredith College NC 10/27/10 2010 UJ98 V. Narang & M. Mitra S.P.A.C.E. India 10/29/10 Congratulations to all of you!! Happy Hunting!! Dr. Patrick Miller

NOVEMBER 2010 SPACE CALENDAR Hello, Please find Astronomical and Celestial events coming in November 2010, listed in the attached calendar. These include Moon Phases, Conjunctions, Oppositions and upcoming Launches as well as projects/Events space will be conducting. This calendar is also visible on the SPACE website here with detailed listings for events on clicking: http://www.space-india.org/space_calendar.htm A photo gallery of recently conducted SPACE events can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/organisationspace Upcoming SPACE conducted Events scheduled in November: Oct 29th to Nov 12th - Great Indian Star Count (Part of Great Worldwide Star Count) Nov 14th - SPACE with Nehru Planetarium will conduct activities to celebrate Nehru Birthday Nov 17th/18th - Leonids Meteor Shower Please join us in these events.

World Space Week continues... Astronomicans are holding the following events at the SPACE office. Please join in these activities to learn more about the science and have some hands-on fun: WEDNESDAY (TODAY) - HydroRocketry Workshop at 4:00 pm at SPACE office and Launch- About 5pm at SPACE office THURSDAY - Overnight observing trip to Javer SATURDAY - Comet making Workshop at 4pm at SPACE Please Contact Shikha for this number: 9212669953

I am happy to share with you that SPACE and Ryan are continuing to receive Congratulations on their Asteroid Discoveries!!!! As you know, SPACE and Ryan Internal School, Rohini members had the honour to meet up with Delhi Chief Minister, Smt. Sheila Dikshit last week. She congratulated the teams and SPACE and gave us an inspirational message. You can see pictures of this meeting here: http://picasaweb.google.com/organisationspace/SPACEAsteroidDiscoverersMeetDelhiChiefMinisterMrsSheilaDixit# Following closely, I am also pleased to share with you this letter from the C.M. of Himachal Pradesh, Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal congratulating Aman and Sahil on the discovery and SPACE for providing the opportunity, and encouraging them in this track. Please see a scanned copy of this letter as an attachment, and also on the SPACE notice board at reception.

SPACE presented a talk by well known Asteroid expert Dr. Vishnu Reddy at American Center today. Dr. Reddy talked to a rapt audience of students about how asteroids are important to study as they are the remnants of solar system formation and their composition in indicative of primordial life. He inspired students to go into this field of space sciences research. About 130 students, Astronomicans and amateur astronomers attended. Students from Amity International - Vasundhara; DPS Gurgaon; The Air Force School; Birla Vidya Niketan, Pushp Vihar; Ryan International Rohini and DPS Sonipat attended this talk. The students were encouraged by Dr. Reddy's advice that there is a lot of work to be done on asteroid research and that the students should be able to contribute to it by observing asteroids such as Vesta with telescopes and contributing data. You can check the photos for the event on http://picasaweb.google.com/organisationspace/TalkByVishnuReddy The talk went successfully. Most of the visitors expressed their intention to join us for future events. Cheers SPACE Thanks you for all your support, looking forward for future events.

The star attraction in the month of October ‘10 seems to be 103P Comet Hartley. The comet promises to be visible with the naked eye in the entire month. Normally comets are at their brightest intrinsically when their distance to the sun decreases to a minimum, in the course of their orbit. This happens when the comet reaches its perihelion, by definition. The brightness of a comet as seen from the Earth is a combination of factors such as its intrinsic brightness, distance from the Earth and elongation from the Sun, i.e. if the comet is visible during twilight or true night. Comet Hartley is closest to Earth on 21st October 2010. The perihelion of Comet Hartley occurs on 28th October 2010. The elongation of the comet in this period ranges from 121 to 116 degrees, i.e. it is far from the Sun and remains visible most of the night in the entire month of October 2010. This set of circumstances are quite favourable for amateur observations, when the comet is closest to the Sun, it lies right opposite to the Sun as seen from Earth. The distance of P103 Hartley from the Sun is just a little greater than 1 au, making the observation circumstances perfect. The magnitude of the comet on 1st October is estimated to 5.8, and at the end of October at magnitude 4.7. Full moon occurs on 23rd October, so about 3 days on either side of Full Moon the Comet’s glory will be diminished a little. The magnitude of the comet tries to compete with the full moon, it reaches a maximum estimated magnitude of 4.4 on 22nd October. The comet starts the month of October in the constellation of Cassiopeia, on 7th October it moves in Perseus, 13th October into Camelopardalis for a brief period and moves back into Perseus on 14th, 18th into Auriga, 26th into Gemini and remains in the same constellation till the end of the month. All of these constellations lie in the high density star fields of Milky Way with plenty of nebulae and deep sky objects strewn across the path of the comet. The comet rendezvous many clusters and nebulae in the month of October as listed below: October 1st & 2nd near Pacman Nebula, NGC 281, in Cassiopeia, October 4th near Owl Cluster in Cassiopeia, October 8th very near to Double Cluster in Perseus, October 14th very near to NGC 1491 in Perseus, October 21st, 22nd & 23rd near M36, M37, M38 the three open clusters in Auriga, October 25th near M35, Open cluster in Gemini, October 27th & 28th near a gibbous Moon.

On 21st of September, a few days before when the earth goes to autumnal equinox position, two tiny dots (not tiny in real sense of the world, these are gas GIANTS!!!!) will put up a small cameo for astronomy lovers all around the globe. Jupiter, the king of the planets and Uranus, will come into opposition with the earth sun system on that day. Two planets in opposition on the same day is really a double treat for astronomers, with both planets separated by only around 1degree (50 minutes of arc actually) can be seen in the same field of view of binoculars and in the wide field telescopes. Contrasting brightness of these two gas giants give you ample scope to view such a variation in brightness of these two tiny dots!!! This is the 18th time these two giants have come this much close since 1900.

This Year’s Rakhi festival has got something special in store for you. Some full Moons are genuinely smaller than others and this coming 24th August full Moon is quite small. Why? The Moon's orbit is an ellipse with one side 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other. In the language of astronomy, the two extremes are called "apogee" (far away) and "perigee" (nearby). On August 24th, the Moon becomes full within 12 hours after reaching apogee, making it look smaller than other full Moons we are going to see in 2010. No need to worry about it, it’s a visual treat if you are interested in how moon change size day by day, hour by hour!!

Hello astronomicans, astronomicans are making records!!!! another asteroid discovered by our veteran astronomican Vikrant Narang and the SPACE scientific officers and educators!!! VTP0002 observed by V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava on August 8th in image set 2010 PP2 has been designated as a newly-discovered asteroid 2010 PV57. A second asteroid discovery in that same image set is 2010 PU57, as observed by IASC astronomer Tom Vorobjov. Credit for this discovery is also shared with V. Narang, T. Paranjape, & P. Srivastava. The asteroids were discovered under the "All india astreoid search Campaign" programme in collaboration with IASC. I hope next year when we have the programme, more astronomicans would apply for the search!!!!

Major Discovery! Main Belt Asteroid Discovered on Aug. 10th, 2010. as part of All India Asteroid Search Campaign conducted by SPACE in collaboration with IASC (International Asteroid Search Collaboration)! Congratulations to SPACE Club students A. Singh and S. Wadhwa . A.Singh & S.Wadhwa from Ryan International School, Rohini discovered the Main Belt asteroid 2010 PO24 The discovery was made on August 6th. This is the first asteroid discovery by any school participating in the All-India Asteroid Search Campaign. Congratulations. 2010 PO24 is a rare Mars-crossing asteroid. Its average distance from the Sun is 2.34 AU but it gets as close as 1.66 AU. Mars is at an average distance of 1.52 AU but varies between 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU from the Sun. Link to: http://organisationspace.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-main-belt-asteroid-discovered.html Once again Congratulation to A.Singh & S.Wadhwa...Outstanding Job!! Keeping Looking P. Jhaveri, A. Shah, & M. Shastri from SPACE Nodal Center, Navrachana School, Vadodara have also made a Virtual Impactor Observation in the same program Link to: http://organisationspace.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-vio-virtual-impactor-observation.html

Perseids Meteor Shower Night of August 12th, 2010 The Perseids meteor shower, one of the most reliable and spectacular ones of the year will be coming up soon, on the night of August 12th/early morning August 13th. Perseids meteor shower usually have ZHR (Zenithal Hourly Rate) of around 100-120 meteors, which will mean about 1 every 2 minutes and they will appear to originate from (radiant) the constellation Perseus. The thin, crescent moon will be out of the way early, setting the stage for a potentially spectacular show. For best viewing, look to the northeast after midnight.The monsoon clouds however, may spoil the show. Timings of peak: August 12, 18h30m UT (Aug 13, 0h00m IST) to August 13, 07h00m UT (12h30m UT) For more details Click here

Come August and we have one of the best annual celestial fireworks shows – Presides Meteor Shower. Right now the earth is passing through fragments and dust trails created by the comet swift Tuttle and this means the Perseids meteor shower has started and will be getting stronger each day until its peak on 12th August 2010. Only bad weather and clouds can deprive us from this wonderful display of fireworks from the skies. The presides Meteor showers of August is one of the most famous Astronomical Summer time events. Some call the presides "old Reliable" because every year it seems to deliver an extraordinary exhibit in the August skies. Let’s pack our bags and spend a night under the stars far away from city light.

Hello Astronomicans, The meeting of Astronomica for july/August is on Saturday, i.e.,17th July, 2010, at the SPACE Office in Afternoon @4:30pm. Address: WZ-19, A3 Block, Asalatpur, Janakpuri, New Delhi-58. Its near Janakpuri West Metro station, and St. Marks School (C-1 Block). Agenda: 1. Reports of events from previous month 2. Evening observation/night observation - dates to be decided 3. astrophotography events in coming months - dates/venue 4. proposal of opening of radio astronomy chapter 5. Webcast - how to go about it in future? 6. individual projects 7. roadside astronomy 8. report on going on Asteroid search project 9. astrophotography slide show Hope this time some new member also join us for this meeting. kindly confirm your presence.

INTERACTION WITH ASTRONAUT JOAN HIGGINBOTHAM at  Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi,  on the 6th of July  at 11:00 AM. Nehru Planetarium is hosting an interaction with Astronaut Joan Higginbotham on July 6th, Tuesday, 1100AM onwards in coordination with us at SPACE. School students will get an opportunity to talk to her about her experiences in space. EVENT DETAILS: Reporting time              :           10:30 AM Tea                            :           10:30 -11:00 AM Lecture and interaction  :           11:00 AM – 12:30 PM About the Astronaut: Joan Higginbotham was the third Afro American woman in space. She was in a space mission with Sunita Williams and was a close friend of Kalpana Chawla. She flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-116 as a mission specialist. Joan has logged over 308 hours in space having completed her first mission with the crew of STS-116 where her primary task was to operate the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS). kindly confirm your presence by 5th july before 6'o clock at 9212669913. Contact info@space-india.org for details.

June 21st will mark the beginning of summer in the northern hemisphere and is called the summer solstice. It is the longest day for people living in the northern hemisphere. In 2010, the solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere on June 21, at 11:28 UT, i.e. at 16:58 IST. At the June solstice, Earth is positioned in its orbit so that the North Pole is leaning 23-and-a-half degrees toward the sun. As seen from Earth, the sun is directly overhead at noon 23-and-a-half degrees north of the equator, at an imaginary line encircling the globe known as the Tropic of Cancer. The sun's rays are directly overhead along the Tropic of Cancer (the latitude line at 23.5° north, passing through Mexico, Saharan Africa, and India). This is as far north as the sun ever gets. This results in the longest day of the year. For example in New Delhi, sunrise on summer solstice day in 2010 will be at 5:24 am and sunset will be at 7:22 pm making it a day which is almost 14 hours duration. Summer Solstice Event conducted by SPACE: To celebrate the summer solstice, SPACE will be performing public outreach at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi on Monday, 21st June. Educators from SPACE will be measuring the sun angle and the sun’s declination using the Ram Yantra and the Jai Prakash Yantra instruments. They will also explain the various instruments at Jantar Mantar to the public. All media and public are invited to attend this event. Details: Summer Solstice: June 21, at 11:28 UT, i.e. at 16:58 IST Event: SPACE will conduct Public Outreach and Activities Location: Jantar Mantar, New Delhi Date and Time: Monday, 21st June, 2010 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Greetings!! Suvriti Dhawan Megha Arora Prafull Bhavneet SPACE is happy to inform you that you have been selected to participate in Phase II (July 1st - Aug 17th) of the prestigious ‘All India Asteroid Search Campaign’ (AIASC) on the basis of your application! As you know, this is part of an international real time science initiative by "SPACE" and "International Astronomical Search Collaboration" . This will give you an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of research at an international level, and be involved in real time data analysis and science. Selected Astronomicans will be given exclusive access to datasets and can analyze the data with the specialized software provided during training to find and identify asteroids! Discoveries, confirmations and observations of NEOs are reported on the website. In phase I, our schools have already made 2 NEO confirmations and 35 NEO observations till date. You are requested to attend the workshop on June 30th in Delhi and RSVP to us if attending.. Please write to us at aiasc2010@space-india.org if you have any queries. Welcome to the Asteroid Hunt! IMPORTANT: Please bring along a laptop, and an internet connectivity card, if possible, as this workshop will conduct a hands-on demonstration of the software. A payment of Rs. 500 (cash) will be collected at the workshop. Date and Location: We will get back to you soon What will be provided: A CD with software ‘Astrometrica’, practice data sets and relevant hand-outs All INDIA ASTEROID SEARCH CAMPAIGN Duration – July 1st to Aug 17th – Phase II Details: 1. The website http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index.htm (Link - All India Asteroid Search Campaign) will load data (1 or 2 image sets) every few days exclusively for each Group 2.Each team will get a login id and password – login, access and download that data. 3.Use Astrometrica to analyse this data as per training. 4.Send in the MPC report of each image set analysed and also send a copy of each report to SPACE. 5.Successful observations will be listed on http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index_files/Page786.htm and also updated on http://organisationspace.blogspot.com/. We hope to address most of your questions at the workshop. If you have any queries about the workshop and the program, please feel free to ask the contacts listed below. Also, please give us your correct email address which you check often, as all mails regarding the program, data etc will be sent to that mail so it is urgent that you check it often. Good News - Phase I has already been running from May 1st with 15 schools and has been highly successful so far, with 2 successful NEO confirmations and 35 NEO observations by our schools to date: http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index_files/Page786.htm We are looking forward to your joining us in this wonderful opportunity to find asteroids, and along the way get the opportunity to participate in real time science and learn astronomy data analysis techniques. Good luck with Hunting Asteroids!

Hello Everyone, This is to remind you all that live webcast of Astronomica for 07.06.10 will start at 11:30 Hrs. The speaker is C.B. Devgun and the title of his presentation is "Two Small Pieces of Glass". ...... 'and how to turn them into your own personal instrument to look at the limitless sky, the universe and wonder how it all came about' CB, as he is affectionately called, will be on premises at the Teem Murti Bhavan in front of the webcam to talk to you and answer your queries via the chat module. The link to view the webcast is here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/summer-astronomy-lectures The show will be 'on air' at about 11:30 Hrs. to chat using the chat module on the right side you will need a Login ID and password for UStream. The login ID can be had very simply. Just type something below the chat window and you will be asked to login. Signing up for a new ID takes less than a minute. Be aware that the webcast is deffered by about 10 to 15 seconds, when you ask a question, it takes double the time to answer via video, so have patience. As such quality of the webcasts depends on the speed of your internet connection as well as that of source, you could have a better experience by shutting all other internet hogging jobs, like mail, chat, messengers etc. It would also help tremendously if you sit in a dark room! Looking forward to seeing you all in the webcast.

All through the month of June 2010, almost every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, will be lectures and demonstrations at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, organised by the Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. These lectures and can be accessed by anyone through online registration from any location of their choice. CB Devgun (President, SPACE) and Vikrant Narang (Scientific Officer, SPACE) will be giving presentations at this seminar series along with many noted speakers. Details for the 1st 3 talks that include their listings well, is as below:     Friday, 4th June 2010 Topic : Positional astronomy and inspiring sky events Time : 11:30 AM Speaker : Dr. N. Rathnasree, Nehru Planetarium, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library   Monday, 7th June 2010 Topic : Two "small" pieces of glass Time :11:30 AM Speaker : C. B. Devgun, S.P.A.C.E.   Wednesday, 9th June 2010 Topic : The nitti-gritties of using amateur telescopes Time :11:30 AM Speaker : Vikrant Narang, S.P.A.C.E., Astronomica   Please check for information on other talks on this series and details on how to access these webcasts and presentations here: http://nehruplanetarium.org/taarewiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.June2010 Right now it is not completely clear how to log in and where to see this although a Youtube link is listed. I will send more details as known. Meanwhile, the 1st talk of this series by Dr. Rathnashree starts at 11:30 today.

TOPIC- LIGHT POLLUTION BY AMAN & SUVRITI 1. Intro to light pollution - (5 mins) 2. Who all are affected (ppt presentation) - (2-3 mins) 3. What are things causing light pollution and how (ppt presentation) - (3-5 mins) 4. How we people can reduce light pollution (slide show)- (2 mins) 5. Star count intro and request - (5-6 mins) 6. Poem - (1 min) 7. Light pollution pics (with poem) 8. An interview of any astronomican, Shashank Shekhar about light pollution – what it is? How he is     affected? What he has done to reduce its effects? What common man can do to reduce its effect? 9. SHORT MOVIE- On how much people know about light pollution (interview of people) 10. What all is in Night Sky from 15th may to 28th may All are requested to watch it!!! Link is given below: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/light-pollution Aman ASTRONOMICA vice-president

After having such a wonderful observation time to get together and discuss the further plans for June, so next meeting for astronomicans is scheduled on 29th may 2010 ,Coming Saturday. Following are the agenda for a meeting: 1. Web show: Date for next web show , who will be the host and topic for the same. 2. Activities for the next month 3. Observation: will decide the venue, date for monthly observation 4. Trip: will decide what date and venue for the trip. 5. Review: will have review from members on last observation So will request all the members who were the part of 22nd May observation to be present in this meeting and share their experience and feedback too. So looking forward to a stimulating discussion on all above agenda . Kindly confirm your presence!!!.

Hello astronomicans, The new comet McNaught (C/2009 R1) in the skies is visible in the early morning skies though at around 6 mag but it should be visible in binoculars and good object to shoot. I propose an observation on 11th June 2010 from Jewar, the observation site of SPACE, for which permission has been taken. Those who want to go for the observation should mail the confirmations in the group by morning of 11th. This observation is tentative and will only be confirmed once we have good number of people. For more details, look out for next msg. Regards C B Devgun President Science Popularisation Association of Communicators and Educators National Coordinator, India, World Space Week chander.devgun@gmail.com 09810226297, 09250901015