A biography of 19th century British astronomer Norman Robert Pogson and his family has been published recently. Pogson did most of his work in Chennai (or Madras as it was then). His daughter, Elizabeth Isis, worked as his assistant and became the first meteorologist (after her father) in south India. The book titled Astronomer Norman Pogson and his Amazing Family is available on Amazon.
Aditya-L1 which observes the Solar Chromosphere and Corona and also the in-situ observations at the Sun-Earth L1 point. The first set of science quality data was released on Jan 6th 2025 (Refer Jan 15, 2025 Solar News). The second set of science quality data of Aditya-L1 is released on the 14th of February 2025. To access and download the data, please use the following website: https://pradan.issdc.gov.in/ and then click on Aditya-L1 to register yourself and access the data.
We are pleased to share details about the upcoming International Conference on "Astrophysics and Space Science with Meteorological Balloons," organized by the Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP), Kolkata, India, from April 2 to 4, 2025. The registration deadline is March 21, 2025, and the abstract submission deadline is March 7, 2025.
Please find attached the SkyNews for March 2025.
Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai
Dear Colleagues,
We are happy to invite the nominations for Prof. Peraiah Foundation Lecture 2025 from the Heads of Institutions, Directors of Observatories, Heads of Departments or individual senior scientists. The nominations, including all the supporting documents (as a single PDF file), may please be sent by email to peraiahfoundationaward@iiap.res.in, by the deadline of 31st March, 2025.
An Introductory Workshop on Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: From Observation to Understanding the Science of Exoplanets
From: April 4-6, 2025 at IIT Kanpur, India.
Please find more information from the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/exows25/home
Please find attached the workshop poster for your reference.
Thank you
Prashant and Gopal
IIT-Kanpur
ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences (ATSOAA 2025) is from April 21 to May 02, 2025 at ARIES, Nainital. Please find more information from the following link.
The fourth workshop of Indo-Belgian collaboration (BINA workshop) will be held at the University of Calicut from 4 to 7 November 2025.
Please find more information from the attached file.
The annual Kodaikanal Winter School on Solar Physics conducted by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, will be organised this year in March 2025, and it will be part of the year-end events celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory.
The details of the School:
Dates: 18-22 March 2025.
Location: Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Tamil Nadu.
Last date to apply: 24 February 2025.
For more details visit the following page.
Dear Colleague,
We are happy invite you to attend the "Radio Astronomy TEchniques Seminars - RATeS".
