National Events/Notifications

XSat is a proposed next-generation Indian X-ray astronomy space mission in collaboration with Europe. If approved, it will be a legacy of AstroSat and will cause a transformational leap in X-ray spectral-timing capability unmatched by any existing or currently planned international mission. XSat aims to probe, with an unprecedented depth, fundamental and extreme aspects of compact…

Dear all,

This is the first announcement of the VBO dust workshop III 'Dust across cosmic scales: from Grain to Galaxies'  which is being organized at VBO from 11 to 14th August 2026 (in hybrid mode). The workshop will have expert review talks on current trends of Astrophysical dust, contributory talks and tutorial sessions on data analysis and dust codes.

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Please find attached the Sky News for June 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Dear All,

Greetings!

The BRICS Astronomy Working Group, together with the participating member nations, is currently preparing a joint application under the BRICS STI Framework Programme (PI: Prof. David Buckley). I will be coordinating the Indian contributions to this proposal.

With this email, I would like to invite interested members of the Indian Astronomy community to…

IIST is organising its 14th IIST Astronomy & Astrophysics School (IAAS) from 13 July 2026 – 22 July 2026. The school is meant to acquaint students with the basics of astrophysics. The lectures will be at a fundamental level with introductions to more advanced topics.

Students from any one of the following backgrounds are eligible to apply for the school

M Sc…

IIG-ISRO Space Weather Summer School during June 08–19, 2026

Application deadline: 12 May 2026

Please find more information at  IIG-ISRO Space Weather Summer School

The 1st ILMT Contest is a nationwide astronomical data analysis competition organized using data from the 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT). This initiative aims to bring together students to work on real observational data and develop innovative solutions for detecting and analysing streaks in astronomical images, which are mostly caused by passing satellites and space debris…

The Public Outreach and Education Committee of the ASI is in the process of creating and updating various databases of public interest. We would like to release an initial version of these databases at the ASI, and hence we request the relevant people to please fill these in by 10 May 2026.

All these databases will be made public on the ASI & POEC websites.

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Please find attached the Sky News for May 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

Dear All,

The 4m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is India’s first optical survey telescope, which has been continuously monitoring the zenith sky since its first light in April 2022 and has successfully completed four observing cycles until 2025. It covers an area of approximately 115 deg² per year, acquiring nearly 4 TB of high-quality imaging data in the SDSS g′, r′, and…

The second edition of "Conference On Blazars and Restless AGNs (COBRA): A High-Energy View", jointly organized by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. This year, we are delighted to host the meeting at IISER, Mohali from July 1-3, 2026.

The conference is…

Aditya-L1 Proposal Writing and Submission Workshop will be conducted online on 21st April, 2026.
Last Date of application: 19 April, 2026

Please register at the following link and please find more information from the attached poster. 
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13th Aditya-L1 Support Cell Workshop will be conducted from 06 - 15 July, 2026 at ARIES, Nainital.
Last Date of application: 22 May, 2026

Please find more information from the following link and the attached poster.
https://al1ssc.aries.res.in/workshop-13 

ICTS Summer School on Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
13 July 2026 to 24 July 2026
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, Bengaluru, India 
URL: https://icts.res.in/program/gwa2026
Application deadline: 15 May 2026

Applications are invited…

Gravitational Wave Instrumentation Workshop Summer Edition - 2026 will be held from June 29 - July 10, 2026, at IUCAA, Pune. This workshop is designed to introduce MSc/early-PhD students to GW Instrumentation. 

Please find more information from following link.

https://web.iucaa.in/ws/~GWIWSE-…

ISRO has announced the second Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for the Aditya-L1 mission, inviting the Indian solar physics community to submit proposals for Aditya-L1 observation time.

Deadline of proposal submission is 30 April 2026. For more details, please visit https://www.isro.gov.in/…

Please find attached the Sky News for April 2026.

Lunar Occultation Event on 29 Mar 2026
Regulus (Alpha Leonis) Mahga मघा will be occulted by the Moon on the night of 29 March 2026. This event is visible to the naked eye. For more information, Please visit
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Please find attached the Sky News for March 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

XSPECT onboard XPoSat, ToO data for the source 1A 1118-61 is available for download. The source was observed from  23 Jan to 31 Jan and from 5 Feb to 12 Feb  2026. Please visit  https://pradan1.issdc.gov.in/x01/ for data download.

Announcement for the 2nd SKA-India Summer Training School 2026 at IIT-Kanpur (SKA training school - II)

We are pleased to announce the second Square Kilometre Array(SKA)-India Summer Training School 2026, which will be held from June 29 to July 10, 2026, at IIT Kanpur. This pioneering initiative, organised under the SKA-India consortium, marks an important step in…

The ARIES Training School in Observational Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences (ATSOAA 2026) will be organized by ARIES, Nainital, from April 20 to April 30, 2026.

Last date of application: 25 February 2026.

Please find more information from the following link.

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Please find attached the Sky News for February 2026.

Arvind Paranjpye
Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai

An IAU Junior Member WG Event: Researchers in the Spotlight with Prof. Debarati Chatterjee, Prof. Chandreyee Maitra and Prof. Rajeshwari Dutta (Special Edition: IUCAA x IAU Women in Science Event 2026) on 4th February 2026.

Please find more information from the…

This is the first announcement of the "INDUS Symposium on Heliospheric Advancements (ISHA)", an online-only conference from 08-10 April 2026, dedicated to early-career researchers in space physics. ISHA is designed as a focused and accessible forum for PhD, Postdoctoral, and early-career researchers to present their work and engage in in-depth scientific discussion.

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First AO cycle observations of Aditya-L1 for National Guest Observer was opened on 6 Jan 2026. The deadline to submit the proposal is 6 Feb 2026.
Please find more details at https://www.isro.gov.in/AdityaL1_first_AO_cycle.html

Title: Workshop on Galaxy Mergers and their nuclei" will be conducted at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru from March 9 to 11, 2026

Description: The workshop will be for two and a half days, and will consist of introductory talks on galaxy mergers and their nuclear activity. The afternoons will have hands on sessions for using multi-…

The 3rd International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT-2026) Workshop will be hosted by ARIES Nainital from 9 - 13 March 2026. This workshop is open to students in the final year of their M.Sc. (Physics/Astrophysics), the fifth year of their BS-MS (Physics), and Ph.D. (Physics/Astrophysics) students up to their third year.

About ILMT - The International…

Please find attached the IAU circular for Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM2026).

The ASI Symposium 006: Communicating Astronomy in India - 2026 (ASI SCAI-26) will be held during 22-24 January at IUCAA, Pune. The Sympsosium is supported by the generous financial support as well as in-kind contributions of the ASI, IUCAA, IIA, ARIES, and NCRA-TIFR.

With 150 attendees and more than 170 other registered participants attending online,…

A micro-credential course (Hybrid mode) on "The Physics of Fluid Mechanics" will be conducted at Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education from January 20, 2026.

Fluid mechanics is one of the oldest branches of theoretical physics, founded by Leonhard Euler in 1755. Yet it contains one of the deepest unsolved problems in physics: that of…