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Astronomy

If you live in Bangalore or Bengaluru and you've ever wondered where to actually go for stargazing, you're already at the right place. Founded in Bangalore in 2016, we run weekend stargazing camps from dark-sky sites within driving distance, school astronomy programmes in Bangalore schools, and private astronomy evenings for offices across Whitefield, Indiranagar, Koramangala, JP Nagar, and along Kanakapura Road.

When we put this together in 2016, organised astronomy camps at this scale didn't really exist in our part of the country. The format we built that year - telescopes under genuinely dark skies, theory around a campfire, breakfast at sunrise - is roughly the template most other astronomy operators in India now follow.

What we're best known for, though, isn't the geography or the years on the calendar. It's the teaching.

Yes, we're the best-equipped astronomy outfit in India - some of the largest amateur telescopes in the country, dedicated solar telescopes that are hard to find elsewhere. But equipment is only half the story. Our camps are led by some of the best minds in the field of astronomy education - people who can explain why Saturn's rings look the way they do tonight, why a planet is unusually bright this month, what the panchanga has to do with where the Moon sits, and how a telescope actually focuses light. Children, in particular, walk away having understood something, not just seen it.

You don't pick a school by the height of its building. We think the same applies here.