tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66771152362494561712012-02-17T00:14:13.962+05:30An official blog of Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO)working in the feild of astronomy and space science in Nepal!Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12299717509288605091noreply@blogger.comBlogger1541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6677115236249456171.post-9467209488891764512011-12-28T10:12:00.015+05:302011-12-28T11:22:09.147+05:30

NASO's special project "HELLO JUPITER" officially launched on 26th Dec 2011 in the far east region of Nepal during the exhibition programme organized by Damak Multiple Campus, Damak, Jhapa. NASO was invited for the special talk on astronomy and for facilitating an observation programme by the exhibition organizing committee. NASO vice president Mr Sudeep Neupane along with NASO Member Mr.Riwaj

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As the second and last of two total lunar eclipses in 2011, the total lunar eclipse occurring on 10 December is posed to enthrall eclipse-enthusiasts from central and eastern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska and northern Canada. The first total lunar eclipse was observed on 15 June this year. The eclipse’s total phase would last for meager fifty one minutes. Its faint penumbral shadow would

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  Nov 4, An observation programme was organized by NASO (during EurAstro mission 2011) with the help of the local youth club.  During the observation, participants observed Moon and the Jupiter through binocular, and telescope. A short talk on introductory astronomy  was given to school children by Jean Luc, Sudeep Neupane and Suresh Bhattarai before the

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Mocso Astronomy Club (MAC) and Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) began the friendship organizing a star party followed by a short colloquial at Russian Center for Science and Culture (RCSC), KamalPokhari, Kathmandu on the day 11.11.11.

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NASO organized four talk programmes in Kathmandu during Nov 2 to Nov 4 of EurAstro Mission 2011 after the team came  back from 3 days programme at Nagarkot. Talk Programme at Russian Center for Science and Culture, Kamal Pokhari Title: Astronomy and Astrophotography Time: 16:00 - 17:00 hrs Audience: Citizens of Globe who want to celebrate 50th anniversary year of first human in space Mr

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An interaction programme on "Importance of Astronomy and Space Science for the Development of Our Society" had been organized at Nagarkot, Bhaktapur on 30th October 2011. GHOU-Nepal Chapter along with Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized the programme during the EurAstro Nepal Mission 2011. NASO executives, teachers including N-PABSON executives, EurAstro mission members and

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EurAstro team landed in Kathmandu on 23rd Oct for two week long Nepal Mission 2011. NASO Vice President Sudeep Neupane and Secretary Suresh Bhattarai welcomed team at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).NASO have arranged different programmes at different places during the mission.

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details soon............

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October Second week remained busy for NASO doing astronomy outreach in three different districts, named Chitwan, Makawanpur and Sarlahi of Nepal for astronomical outreach. The team carried it's 8 inch Dobsonian to the places and talked about astronomy and did some observation whenever weather remained cleared!In the evening of October 16, some night sky observation and light pollution estimation

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The annual Orionid meteor shower is coming. This shower is expected to rain down its greatest number of meteors before dawn on Friday, October 21, or Saturday, October 22. The rather wide waning crescent moon will interfere, but if you're out on those mornings you might see some meteors!Watch for the Orionids between midnight and dawnAs usual, the best time to watch the Orionid meteor shower will

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NASO Vice President Mr. Sudeep Neupane is back from his successful participation in International Astronautic Congress 2011 (IAC2011) held in Cape Town, South Africa.He has been the IAF Youth Grant Winner for 2011.IAF president Inaugurating IAC2011 in Cape Town NASO Vice President Mr. Sudeep Neupane in IAC 2011 opening ceremonyIAF2011 Youth Grant Winners with Past President of IAF IAF Youth Grant

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NASO outreach team reached Celebration Co-Ed situated at Jorpati, Kathmandu on 23rd Sept with the mission to envolve school students for the Project Paridhi- measuring the earth once again.A brief introduction of the project by Mr. Suresh Bhattarai, Secretary of NASO, sufficiently excited all the students for the task. Preparation started on the scheduled time 9:00 hours in the morning. All of

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We all know that the earth is round, at least this is what our teachers and their teachers have been telling us and them. We never ventured out of the paradigm of one way learning to experience the joy of learning by doing it and that too especially Science.There have been followers of "Flat earth" theory and it used to be quite big number which it still is in some of the so called "flat earth

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The 11th Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM2011) was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during July 26-29, 2011, continuing on from the successful 10th APRIM held in Yunnan, PRC in 2008. The principal aim of the conference was to provide a forum for the expanding astronomy research community. In view of the extensive scientific and technical development in astronomy now occuring at the

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Report coming soon......

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The first Total Lunar Eclipse of 2011 brought great excitement among the amateur astronomers of Nepal.observe this historical eclipse,Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO), Kathmandu and Nepali Association for Astronomical Mission(NAAM) Birgunj,Nepal had organized doouble stationed observation of TLE from Nepal.before, NASO has spread the news among the nepalese through different media. " We have been

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The first rare and longest total lunar eclipse of 2011 occurs on Wednesday 15 June 2011. Sky-gazers with clear skies could view this eclipse also from parts of Southeast Asia, eastern Australia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, South America and Antarctica.For us, the eclipse will begin at 11:08 PM local time when the moon enters the faint portion (penumbra) of the earth’s shadow. At about an

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On May 1, 2011, a program was organized as a collaboration of Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) and Martin Chautari (MC) under the research seminar series of MC as a celebration of Global Astronomy Month (GAM) in Nepal.During the program, Rishi Shah, Academician-Nepal Academy of Science and Technology(NAST); president-Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO) presented a talk on "Promoting Space Science

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Two executives of NASO, Dr. Rishi Shah-president and Mr. Sudeep Neupane- Vice President, participated in MEARIM II 10-15 April, 2011 which was held in CAPE TOWN, SA. During the meeting Mr. Sudeep Neupane, Founder vice president of NASO, delivered his presentation on "Astronomy Education Status and Outreach in Nepal". The meeting was organized at Ritz Hotel, Cape Town. Group photo of the

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On April 2, NASO Movie club members watched a movie THE TIME MACHINE. This event was organzed a part of GAM2011 célébration in Népal.

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On April 2, NASO put its stall to give information about Astronomy/Astrophysic and Space science education in Nepal at the Children's Liberty School, Jorpati.( Full report coming soon)

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Celebration for the first human space flight by Russian cosmonout Yuri Gagarin, an organizing committee consisting twenty three members and chaired by Prof Dr Prakash Chandra Adhikari, Member Sectretary Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) has been announced today in the meeting at Russian Centre for Science and Culture (RCSC), Kamal Pokhari, Kathmandu. Photo 1: Dr. Rishi Shah,

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March 20 2011 NASO had a wonderful meeting with NASA SOLAR SYSTEM JPL Ambassador Joan Chamberlin from Maine, US. During the meet, we had bilateral discussion for the development of society through astronomy and space science and the cooperation for future.

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NASO celebrated HAPPY HOLI and The SUPER MOON today. The memorable snaps are on your sight below:

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-By Rishi ShahAs darkness descends on earth, the entire night sky comes alive with mesmerizing marvels of our arcane universe. Avid sky-gazers could relish on the splendid spectacle of planets and enjoy the alluring exhibits of stars, galaxies and nebulae that spread all over dark night skies from dusk till dawn. The zodiacal constellations of Pisces (fishes), Aries (ram), Taurus (bull), Gemini (

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) is very happy that The team of five members Suresh Bhattarai and Shekhar Phuyal (St.Xaviers Astrophysics Students), GD Pudasaini and Utsav Kandel (BSc 3rd year physics student) led by Rijendra Thapa (St. Xavier’s Astrophysics student), and supported by Nepal Astronomical society was successful in organizing another successful outreaching event,the project "

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-By Rishi ShahAs it darkens the night skies of this month becomes alive with planets, stars and many awesome wonders of our universe. Zodiacal constellations of Aquarius (water bearer), Pisces (fishes), Aires (ram), Taurus (bull), Gemini(twins) and Cancer (crab) are seen unfurling from western to eastern horizon. The Great Square of Peagasus (winged horse) is soaring towards western sky.

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Quadrantid Meteor Shower observation has been conducted during 03:00-06:00 Hrs on Tuesday, January 4, 2011. The rate was quite low as predicted because of light pollution and the faintness of the most of the meteors!The first hour of the observation was in vain as fogs came in to play which continue next hour as well.Most of the meteors recorded only during 05:00-06:00 Hrs in the morning.20

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organize a tour to Sauraha during December 27-29,2010 to survey the sky quality and the natural heritage of Nepal. The team comprising 7 people from different sectors and headed by Rishi Shah, president of NASO. This is one the regular events that NASO organises since last year and also it's last event for the year 2010! Wish you all a happy new year 2011!

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) conducted Geminids Observation and submitted the data to International Meteor Organization (IMO) for the first time. This submission was possible as Mr. Suresh Bhattarai, founder secretary of NASO and member of IMO joined International Meteor Conference (IMC) 2010 in Armagh, Northern Ireland (UK). He conducted the observation during December 13 and 14, 2010 and

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One of the best meteor showers of the year the Geminids are expected to exhibit consistently prolific flashes of shooting stars in the night of 14 to 15 December 2010. Circa sixty to one hundred and twenty streaks of tiny particles that burn up fairly seventy kilometers high above earth’s surface as they slam through our atmosphere with speeds of approximately thirty five kilometers per hour

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The astro book drive for Nepal has been commenced successfully. Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) has received seven parcels of books. As NASO has been working in the field of astronomical development in Nepal, Astro book drive has been considered very important for its enhancement. The book drive is very essential to the people who have no direct reach to astronomy books. NASO would like to

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Nepal Academy of Science and Technology(NAST) celebrated its 28th anniversary at its premises this morning. Addressing the celebration,cheif guest science and Technology State Minister Mr. Indra Prasad Dhungel said that the state will insvent more in R & D in coming days. He explained that the government will be happy to start many interesting projects that Nepalese scientist are dong in their

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As darkness descends on earth the night sky becomes alive with twinkling stars, gleaming planets and other arcane entities that cover the entire sky magnificently. The zodiacal constellations of Capricornus (sea goat), Aquarius (water bearer), Pisces (fishes), Aries (ram), Taurus (bull) and Gemini (twins) are sprawling across the sky from western to eastern

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अप्रिल २०११ फेरी एक पटक सम्पूर्ण खगोलविदहरुकालागी व्यस्त महिना हुनेछ किनभने फेरी एक पटक विश्‍वव्यापी खगोल महिना (GAM ) आफ्नो दोस्रो अध्याय लिएर फर्किएको छ । एस्ट्रोनोमर्स विदआउट बोर्डर्स (AWB) नामक संस्थाले आयोजना गर्ने यस वार्षिक कार्यक्रम अप्रिल महिना भरी संचालन हुन्छ । अन्तराष्ट्रिय खगोल वर्ष २००९ को एक कार्यक्रम '१०० HA' को निरन्तरता स्वरूप ब्रम्हाण्डको उत्सव मनाएर विश्‍वव्यापी खगोल महिना

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NASO team coordinated by Founder Vice President of NASO and Research Student of Astrophysics, TU, Mr. Sudeep Neupane along with Espro Foundation reached Bhawani Vidhyapeeth (higher secondary school), Phalebas, Parbat for an outreach on 13th Nov, 2010. The four member team (Sudeep Neupane, Suresh Bhattarai & Rijendra Thapa from NASO and Prabodh Pravakar Risal from Espro Foundation/Eureka High

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-By GD Pudasaini"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is at all comprehensible."- ALBERT EINSTEINLook up at the mesmerizing night sky; what do you see? Billions of points of light dancing across the night sky, meteorites hurtling down to earth at incredible speed, large milky white band extending from North to South, planets moving haphazardly in the way they like, moon

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Nov 1: The Moon is 5 degrees S of Regulus in the East before dawnNov 4: A Waning Crescent Moon is about 7.5 degrees SE of Saturn in the East just before dawnNov 6: New MoonNov 13: First Quarter MoonNov 16: A Gibbous Moon is nearly 6.5 degrees away from JupiterNov 17/18: The Leonids Meteor Shower will peak. This shower has produced meteor storms in the past, but no storm is expected this year.

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Observation Programme at Jorpati, Kathmandu, 18 Sep, 2010Photo Credit: Mr. Sudeep Neupane, Founder Vice President, NASO

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A group of Nepalese delegates comprising Rishi Shah, Academician-Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Founder President-Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO); Madenra Subedi, Founder Treasurer-NASO and Suresh Bhattarai, Founder Secretary-NASO, Research student- St. Xavier's College, Kathmandu, Nepal actively participated in the one day Workshop on world Wide Telescope at Inter University

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It's a great news that the International Conference on "Accretion and Outflow in Black Hole Systems" is going to be held in Kathmandu,Nepal during October 11-15, 2010 whose scientific scope will be understanding of the process of accretion onto the central black hole and outflows from the system (including the jet formation) in BH binaries, AGNs and GRBs.For more about the conference can be found

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May 24-27, ParasiNASO organized Asronomy School for Kids in collaboration with Filters For Families, a reknown working NGO in Parasi. In the school Prof. of Astrophysics in Colorado University, Suzane Taylor, Vice-President of NASO and Research Student of Astrophysics in Tribhuvan University Mr. Sudeep Neupane, Founder Member of NASO and research Student of Astrophysics Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel

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NASO organized one day seminar at HINDU VIDYA PEETH, Lalitpur on May 19, 2010. Research Student of Astrophysics, Vice President of Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) and coordinator of CALP-Nepal, Mr. Sudeep Neupane delivered a talk on AMATEUR ASTRONOMY, SPACE SCIENCE and LIGHT POLLUTION for school children from secondary level. Faculty and Staffs of the school were also present in the Seminar.

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8th National School on Astronomy and Astrophysics May 18-24, 2010 is being organized by BPKM Planetarium, Observatory and Science Museum Development Board in Sankar Hotel, Lazimpat, Kathmandu. Founder Vice President Mr. Sudeep Neupane and Founder Member Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel are participating in this school form Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO). Observation, Stellar Evolution, Elementary /

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-By Rishi ShahThe night sky of this month displays the elegant beauty of fascinating planets, stars and constellations along with arcane charm of galaxies and nebulae that are spreading all over our universe. As night descends on earth, the zodiacal constellations of Taurus (bull), Gemini (twins), Cancer (crab), Leo (lion), Virgo (maiden) and Libra (scales) are seen unfurling from western to

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Full report coming soon...................

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Three trinkets of NASO set off yesterday to Terhathum for Chhatedhunga . They are Mr. Sudeep Neupane (Founder VP) Mr. Suresh Bhattarai (Founder Secretory) and Mr. Rijendra Thapa(Founder Member). This programme of NASO is a part of the global celebration of GAM. NASO set this exploration as Chhatedhunga was campared to Stone Henge of England. So, this exploration is to indentify whether

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Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel, Fouder Member, NASO, giving seminar at CDPhysics, TU, Kathmandufull report coming soon...

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) wishes to all our friends,readers of our blogs and well- wishers a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2067 B.S. We hope this year helps to further strengthen our activities to create astronomical awareness in Nepal. We are very thankful to all our friend and supporters for their continuous supports and inspirations go implement our plans to the society. We seeks such supports and

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Nepal Astronomical Society(NASo) organized an event to mark Sunday, global program of GAM2010 here in Nepal on Sunday,April 11,2010. The program was organized in H.B. Complex during 14:00-17:00 Hrs for the public to view the Sun through 8 Inch Dobsonian and some solar eclipse glasses. Unfortunately we could not show Sun spot to the participants during the event:-( Did you find Sunspot during the

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Nepal Astronomical Society(NASo) organized an event to mark Sunday, global program of GAM2010 here in Nepal on Sunday,April 11,2010. The program was organized in H.B. Complex during 14:00-17:00 Hrs for the public to view the Sun through 8 Inch Dobsonian and some solar eclipse glasses. Unfortunately we could not show Sun spot to the participants during the event:-( Did you find Sunspot during the

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized star party on April 6 in the street of ancient city Handigaun as 30 nights of star peace in Nepal as an another GAM2010 celebration is Nepal. During the event,the participants were guided to the Mars with the astronomical Pointer, more than 30 people gazed to the Red Planet, Mars through our Binoculars! Photo: A Banner for the 30 Nights of Star Peace

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The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is very pleased to announce the recipients of the IAC 2010 Youth Grants Programme. These ten students and young professionals were selected from over 70 well-qualified applicants in 31 countries.The Student recipients are:* Ahmad Hilmi Abu Kassim from Malaysia* Mary D'Souza from Australia* Dymtro Faizullin from Ukraine* Riwaj Pokhrel from Nepal*

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-By Rishi ShahThe night skies of this month display the beauty of planets and stars along with the marvels of galaxies and nebulae that are spread all over our universe. As it darkens zodiacal constellation of Aries (ram), Taurus (bull), Gemini (twins), Cancer (crab), Leo (lion), Virgo (maiden) and Libra (scales) are seen stretching across the sky from western to eastern horizon. Puny

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Nepal Astronomical Society organized an Educational Outreaching activity amongst curious students of Grade 6, 7 , 8 and 9 studying at RIA School . The event was held at the premises of the school located at Kapan, Kathmandu on 2nd April 2010.During the event, Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel , founder member of NASO ,and the coordinator of GAM Nepal talked about Global Astronomy Month(GAM)and reflected on

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The celebration of Global Astronomy Month (GAM) has been started officially in Nepal . On the first day of GAM, Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized a talk programme at Celebration Co-Ed School,Narayan Taar, Jorpati during 13:00-14:00 Hrs.During the talk programme, Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel, Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) co-coordinator for Nepal explained about the GAM and possible activities

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Communicating Astronomy With The Public - CAP2010, was successfully held from 15–19 March, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa. This was a platform where different countries got together and discussed how each of them contributed towards the general theme of communicating astronomy with public, There were sessions where delegates from many places of the world demonstrated how they interacted with law

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Mr.Riwaj Pokhrel, who is ppne of the founder member of Nepal Astronomcal Society (NASO)and also a research student of astrophyiscs at Central Department of Physics(CDP) of Tribhuvan University(TU), has left for South Africa this afternoon in order to participate in a conference entitled 'Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2010 (CAP 2010) — Building on the International Year of Astronomy 2009

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- By Rishi ShahThe night skies of this month exhibit the grandeur of the planets and the silent beauty of the stars and the constellations along with many marvels of our universe. As it darkens the zodiacal constellations of Aries (ram), Taurus (Bull), Gemini (twins), Cancer (crab), Leo (lion) and Virgo (maiden) are seen unfurling magnificently across the sky from western to eastern horizon.

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-By Rishi Shah and Suresh BhattaraiThroughout human history and across many different cultures, extraordinary names from mythical fables have been associated with distinguished star patterns of various shapes and sizes. Known commonly as constellations, they are seen magnificently all over the night sky. The current 88 constellations as recognised by the apex institution, the International

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An observational programme was held today in the Central department of physics of Tribhuvan University, Nepal by Nepal Astronomical Society. Though the climate was quite disappointing in the previous day, it swaggered the following day. The programme continued for five long hours from 3pm to 8pm. During day time, Sun was shown using solar filter in telescope. There was a long

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In November 2009 one of the last major TWAN activities during the International Year of Astronomy 2009 was collection of programs in Nepal. Based on collaboration with Nepal Astronomical Society, TWAN photographers Babak Tafreshi and Oshin Zakarian traveled to Kathmandu.Here are the news and photo linkshttp://www.twanight.org/newTWAN/news_photo.asp?newsID=6044http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/

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-By Rishi Shah The alluring beauty of major planets, enchanting magnificence of arcane galaxies and nebulae along with mysterious entities of the heavens can be relished this month. As it gets dark, the entire sky comes alive with twinkling stars that sketch gorgeous constellations of different sizes and shapes resembling various unique objects. The zodiacal constellations of Pisces (fishes),

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An observational programme was arranged by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) on the premises of H.B. complex, Lalitpur on 29th January, 201o from 6:30pm to 9:00pm. The date was chosen as the opposition of Mars. A part from the beauty of Mars, people also enjoyed the marvelous moon, orion nebula, pleides and other celestial bodies. Overall, "Hello Red Planet" in Nepal was a success.

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An observation campaign was organized today by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) on premises of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST). The program was a grand success with around 550 participants. The whole program had LIVE telecast on Sagarmatha Television. There was also a chunky presence of other news channels, radio journalists and other media representatives.14din welding glasses

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A talk program was held yesterday, January 14, 2010 in Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Khumaltar, organized by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO). The talk was concerned with the longest annular eclipse of the millennium that was going to occur on January 15, 2010.During the program, Er. Rishi shah, Academician- NAST and president of NASO threw light on that particular annular

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Mr. Sudeep Neupane and Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel, two brilient amateur astronomers and executive founder member of NASO left Kathmandu for the Winter School on Astroparticle Physics (WAPP 2009) which is being organized at Mayapuri ,Bose Institute, Darjeeling in association with TIFR, Mumbai during December 14-22, 2009 in Darjeeling.Mr. Sudeep Neupane and Mr. Riwaj Pokhrel are the students of Physics

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-By Rishi Shah, President of NASOThe night skies of this month thrill sky-gazers with the beauty of planets, stars and the magnificence of various heavenly bodies that spread over the entire sky. As night descends on earth one can follow the zodiacal constellations of Capricornus (sea goat), Aquarius (water bearer), Pisces (fishes), Aries (ram), Taurus (bull), Gemini (twins) and Cancer (crab)

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-By Kedar Badu,President, GASPO-Nepal2009 will end with a bang as an eclipsed blue moon and the Gememid meteor shower grace the December skies. But before that, let's talk about the stars.Orion, with his ever-ready hunting bow, will appear on the eastern horizon and herald the winter season. Along it, you will see the constellations Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius and Capricornus. The

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized a grand Star party at the historic city of Nepal- Bhaktapur at the Durbar Square on 19th November 2009. This became one of the greatest outreach program conducted by NASO till date. The observers were over 1000 (thousand) in number including students, local people, police officers, women, street children to high level officers. NASO used its

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A workshop on astrophotography and image processing was held at St. Xavier's seminar hall on Sunday, 15th November 2009. The workshop was jointly organized by Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) and the department of physics of St. Xavier's college. It was a half day workshop in association with "The world at night (TWAN)". Fig:

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized a talk programme on Astronomy and Meteor Science at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST),Khumaltar Lalitpur on Sunday, November 22,2009.During the programme, Jennifer Dudley Winter,NASA Solar System Ambassador and Owner of Astronomical Tours LLC, USA and Fred Bruenjes, amateur astronomer, astrophotographer and owner of Moon Glow Technology,

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Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO) organized Leonids Outburst Observation Campaign 2009 on 17/18 November at the Nagarkot Hill Station situated at the 2195 m above the sea level. this year, the outburst was predicted to reach its peak at 03:45 Hrs NST on November 18,2009. The best time for the observation was announced from 03:00-05:00 Hrs on Nov 18,2009.The dark sky above the Nagarkot

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-By Kedar S Badu This month, we have two meteor showers, the Hunter's Moon and Jupiter dominating the evening skies. But let's talk of the stars first.Along the Zodiac, from east to west, you can now observe the constellations Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Capricornus and Sagittarius. Just below Aries the Ram, enjoy the brilliant constellation Cetus the Whale, with its reddish, super giant binary star

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-By Rishi Shah The night skies of this month delightfully display many fascinating planets, alluring stars and other captivating marvels of the heavens. As darkness descends enchanting zodiacal constellations of Sagittarius (archer), Capricornus (sea goat), Aquarius (water bearer), Pisces (fishes), Aries (ram) and Taurus (bull) are seen unfurling across the sky from western to eastern horizon.

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Full report coming soon.

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Organizers (Step Nepal & NASO) preparing for the programmeNASO team heading towards programme venue2009.10.23Dhangadi, KailaliNepal Astronomical Society (NASO) team along with Campaign against light pollution team reached Kailali on 23rd October, the far west district of Nepal. A programme was jointly organized by Step Nepal (an NGO based in Dhangadi, Kailali, working in the field of S & T) and

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-By Rishi ShahThe prestigious Nobel Prizes are awarded annually to those persons or institutions for having conferred the greatest benefit to mankind with their work in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Literature and Peace. The prizes were established in 1895 in accordance with the will of a Swedish chemist, inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel who made great fortune with his

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The October constellations are a mixed bag. At sunset, the summer constellations glow in the west, but are outshone by the winter constellations after midnight. So just when you thought summer was finally behind us, these stars tell you: no, not quite yet. On the bright side, a lot of the constellations have vaguely Star Wars-esque names, so if you're a Lucas fan, this is the month to check them

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Nepal Astronomical Society(NASO) in association with Takhshashila Academy organized a star party to observe Jupiter and its Moon this evening at Takshashila Academy,Bishalnagar,Kathmandu.The start party started at 17:30 Hrs NST with the introduction of Jupiter and its Moon and Star Peace Project.Mr. Suresh Bhattarai, Star Peace Ambassador for Nepal said the Avenues Television,"Today's Star party

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Nepal Astronomical SOciety is organizing Star Party to celebrate World Peace Day on September 21,2009 in Nepal.This event is organized through out the world StarPeace colleague are going to draw a Peace Line on Earth.India,Bangladesh,maldives,Iran along with other eastern western countries like Brazil is participating in this event.To participate in the Star Peace Event in Nepal,Please contact

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Photo:Participant looking for the map to the venue of ICYA on the street.Photo:Great attention to the presenter! One of the participants presenting his paper.Photo:Discussion of the future plans to meet again! people at tea break.Credit:Ryan Laird,United Kindom

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-Rishi Shah & Suresh Bhattarai Astronomy has played a crucial role in the development of our civilisation and culture. Early astronomy involved observing the motions of visible celestial objects, especially the sun, moon, stars and planets visible to the naked eye. Their altering appearances in the course of the year were used to establish the agricultural or ritual calendar, which influenced the

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The International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA) which is a scientific meeting of undergraduate and PhD students of astronomy and physics as well as more advanced astronomers has started in Cracow Poland today.The conference will conclude on 13th September,2009.ICYA is organised by the Polish Astronomical Society in collaboration with Polish universities (The Jagiellonian University of

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-KEDAR S BADUIf you look out the window this month and notice that the sun is setting in a different place every day, don't worry, the earth is not spiralling out of orbit: it's tilting toward the sun to welcome the season of autumn, beginning 23 September.This means a new set of stars and constellations will make their debut. A couple of hours after sunset, you will see the Milky Way stretching

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-By Rishi ShahThe night skies of this month display numerous planets, countless stars and various arcane celestial entities that decorate the heavens enticingly. As darkness descends on earth, the zodiacal constellations of Virgo (maiden), Libra (scales), Scorpius (scorpion), Sagittarius (archer), Capricornus (sea goat) and Aquarius (water bearer) are seen sprawling across the sky from western to

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Nepal Academy of Science and Technology,NAST,Khumaltar,Lalitpur and Nepal Astronomical Society,NASO,Kathmandu jointly organized a talk programme on The Impact of Astronomy in Nepalese Civilization presented by Mr. Suresh Bhattarai,founder member of NASO, to mark the 400th Anniversary of Galileo's Telescope at NAST Hall during 11:30-13:30 Hrs.Photo: Mr. Suresh Bhattarai,founder member of NASO,

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-By Rishi Shah & Sudeep NeupaneA telescope is a unique astronomical instrument that has been invented cleverly to observe and study remote objects. Its invention was subjected to sequence of events that cannot be assigned to an exact time or place. There are several written references to telescopic gadgets in ancient times, but no solid evidence as to their construction and use could be

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Photo: Founder member Suresh Bhattarai with Prof. Chandra Wikramasinghe,Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology,UK and he was a student and collaborator of Sir Fred Hoyle whose joint work on the infrared spectra of interstellar grains led to developing the modern theory of panspermia.Photo:Founder Member Suresh Bhattarai with Zoltan Toth,Bhakti Vedanta College,Budapest,Hungary.Photo:Mr.

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