"Siddhartha Jain" wrote in message
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I stay at a place (Bombay) with considerable light pollution thus
ruling out taking up any serious viewing with a telescope. Also, I
can't afford the expensive telescopes for deep space viewing or CCD
imagers for astrospectroscopy. I read a bit about radio astronomy but
it seems limited to the observing phenomenon on the earth and planets
close by. My question is how can I involve myself into amateur deep
space astronomy, either all by myself or working with a group of
amateur astronomers? I am an IT Security professional, I can program in
Perl/C, have worked as Unix administrator extensively and understand
basic trigonometry, calculus, physics and physical chemistry (although
that was ten years back but I can refresh myself again if I go thru the
books).

- Siddhartha


I don't know if it still is active, but about 10 years ago, when I
regularly went to Bombay, then further north to Gujarat and Rajasthan on
business, I met an engineer in our (P&G) offices in Bombay, who was a
member of an astronomy club there. So, if you haven't checked around,
that might be one place to start (to see if there is still a local club -
as I recall from that time, I think he said there were TWO clubs in the
area then)...

Good luck, and best wishes!!!

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