NASO and DAS organizes "Lets talk about Space Science" in Mid-Western Region of Nepal!

Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) and newly formed Dang Astronomical Society (DAS) for successful organization of one day interaction programme on " Lets Talk About Space Science" at Sidhartha Adacemy, Dang for students of class 11 and 12 at Siddhartha Academy, Ghorahi-11, Dang, Nepal. 

Photo: Group photo of the participants of the one day interaction programme " Lets Talk about Space Science" at Siddhartha Academy, Ghorahi-11, Dang, Nepal.

DAS will be looking for the NASO activities in Mid-Western Regionin coming days! We are entrilled with your enthusiasm and looking forward to have more programmes in your region in coming days.

Congratulations guys for the successful event!

Wish you all the best for your work to promote astronomy and space science acivities in Mid-Western Region of Nepal!

Nepal succefully participates on Third Astronomy Olympiad Exposure Camp, October 28-31, 2013, India!

A seven member team lead by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) is back to Kathmandu with great enthusiam and strong commitment to host the First National Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2014 in Nepal. The team successfully participated in the Astronomy Olympiad Exposure Camp during Nov 28-31, 2013 at Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education ( HBCSE), Mumbai, India.

The team also paricipated on the ProAm3 Meeting prior to the Exposure Camp at HBSCE on Nov 27, 2013 where amateur and professionals discussed on how citizen science projects can be promoted and how people can get involved on these projects.

Photo 1: Nepalese team busy with star gazing with the telescope provided by the organizer at Observing Station: Dinchak Village, a place which is ~100 KM away from Mumbai, India.

Photo 2: Participants getting attentive during the tutrial session to solve the problems provided with the tutorial kit.

Photo 3: Dr. Aniket Sule, Co-ordinator of Astronomy Cell at HBSCE and organizer of Exposure Camp explaining celestial mechanics to the participants.

Photo 4: Samir Dhurde, Science Communicator and Astronomer at IUCAA, Pune hosting the ProAm3  Meeting on Nov  27, 2013

While in Mumbai, our team visited Nehru Science Center and Nehru Planetarium to get a first hand experience on what should be integrated to our science center in Nepal which we we dreaming in Nepal for a long time!

To get more information on the NOAA2014, subscribe us for the updates on Blog, Facebook and Twitter!