Jyotir-Vidya Parisanstha

Jyotir-vidya Parisanstha is the oldest association of amateur astronomerers in India. JVP (or JP) was born on 22nd August 1944

Society is registered.

JP has its office in the premices of Tilak Smarak Mandir on Tilak Road Pune.

For telephones and fax dial
courtry code --> +91
city code ----> 020
before the telephone number

Address
Land mail :
Post Box #793, SP college post office, Tilak Road, Pune 411 030, INDIA
Email :
URL:   http://www.jvp.org.in/

Office timings : The Office remains open on all Sundays between 5:30 and 8:00 p.m.

Membership : Membership of JP is open to anyone. There are three memberships catagories: Life, Regular and Student. Present memebership is about 300 (regular and student) and 150 life.

The office bearers and executive council (2002-03)

President Mr Suhas Gurjar Ph (R) 538 1837
Vice President Mr Bhaskar Sathaye  
Secretary Mr Sameer Godbole  
Joint Secretary Deepak Joshi  
Treasurer Vilas Deshpande  
Executive council    
  Bharat Chouhan  
  Bhushan Sathe  
  Devdatta Muley  
  Ketaki Rahalkar  
  Ketan Pendase  
  Nikhil Belsare  
  Parimal Dave  
  Sagar Gokhale  
  Santosh Salunke  
  Shailesh Tilak  
  Suryakant Jadhav  

Library : Has a collection of about 500 books. Some of the books are old and rare ones.

Instruments : 3 inch refractor, 6 inch dobs.

Activities

Lectures Monthly
Basic course in Astronomy once a year
Star parties Monthly (when the sky permits)
Telescope making workshops are held at irregular intervals

This site is maintained by
Arvind Paranjpye
IUCAA
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{The page was updated on May 28, 2002}

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