Well, as I told you in the previous post, on last Monday the 22nd, we left from Colombo to Galle.In fact I departed from home at 7:30 am local time and soon I was joint by my fellow astronomer Pulasthi Kanatthage at about 8:45 am. We traveled from bus to Galle town and arrived there [...]

It is a pleasure to tell you all that I have been invited together with my fellow astronomer Pulasthi Shyamika Kanatthage for an astronomy awareness program to be held at Richard Pathirana College, Galle, Sri Lanka. The program will be held tomorrow 22nd June, at 11:00 am (01:30 h EDT) at the college premises.
The [...]

For the second attempt during a session of 5 days, NASA had to postpone the launch of space shuttle Endeavor’s STS-127 mission due to a detection of the hydrogen gas leak, on last Wednesday the 17th. The launch was postponed earlier on last Saturday, the 13th due to a similar reason. The leak had been [...]

This is an image I found at Facebook. In fact this is the 1st occasion I stumbled at this.It is supposed to showcase the ancient Chinese map of Earth. It portrays northern hemisphere and it is a part of Chinese Dunhuang Star Atlas from 649 to 684 d.C.
I would like to investigate more on this [...]

It seems that Western US will be more and more popular in the times to come, as the world’s first ever rather primordial Spaceport is planned to be set-up in the frontier, starting from today 19th June 2009. Today will remark the beginning of an extraordinary episode of space travel, and to be precise space [...]

I was again privileged to contribute for yet another astronomy podcast, courtesy of SkyLK.com.In fact the podcast was scheduled to be recorded online via Skype in the night of last Saturday, the 13th June 2009. However there we 3 pod casters online, namely the two webmasters of SkyLK.com Hasitha Karunarathne and Madusha Dedigamuwa, together with [...]

Having orbited Moon for almost 2 years and having completed its mission successfully, Kaguya the Japanese Spacecraft, crashed on the surface of Moon last Wednesday, leaving the Earthlings its cherished memory as it make flashes of flares upon smashing into the Lunar territories.
Having snapped for each 0.6 seconds this series of images, features how the [...]

Hello Everyone!
I’m getting back to you after a while and some pause. Thanks a lot for those who sent comments enclosing feedback. Well now I’m gonna tell you about a privilege that I was entitled to, as per my title of IYA 2009 Astronomy Sri Lanka blogger.
In fact, I was invited for an astronomy-related radio [...]