What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe
for them to describe?
The cosmos is within us.
We are made of star stuff.
The universe is not out of reach. You can achieve it too.
ASTRO-NOT guides curious students from their first telescope night to real research — through live webinars, hands-on projects, and mentorship that treats young minds like future scientists.
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Treat a curious 15-year-old like a scientist, and they behave like one.
ASTRO-NOT exists because astronomy in most Indian classrooms stops at diagrams. We hand students the same data professional astronomers use, and stay with them until they can read it.
- 01Students are researchers, not an audience.
Every program ends with the student holding a result they produced themselves — a rotation curve, a light curve, an HR diagram — not a certificate of attendance. - 02Real data or nothing.
21-cm radio surveys, stellar photometry, transit photometry. If a dataset is good enough for a journal, it is good enough for a school student with a mentor beside them. - 03Cost should never be the filter.
Our workshops run at ₹149. Talent is spread evenly across the country; opportunity is not, and pricing is the easiest part of that to fix. - 04Mentors who are still doing the work.
Our team publishes, observes, and teaches at the same time — so what students learn is how the field actually works today.
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Where we've already been
Past workshops and webinars, and the certificates our students earned along the way.
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What the field just found out
Recent research in astronomy and astrophysics, explained by our team in plain language. Newest first.
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Our HR Diagram Project Winners & Cash Prize Recipients
Congratulations to the students whose outstanding HR Diagram projects earned them the top three positions and cash prizes.
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The people behind ASTRO-NOT
Researchers and educators making astronomy accessible to every curious mind.
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Exoplanet Transit Hunter
A real star is being watched. Every so often something crosses in front of it and the light dips. Measure that dip, do the physics, and tell us what the planet is — exactly how TESS and Kepler scientists do it.
ASTRO-NOT-1b · Photometry Feed
Rp / R★ = √(ΔF/F)Rp = √(ΔF/F) · R★ · 109.2a³ = M★ · P²a = ∛( M★ · P² )Pyr = Pdays ÷ 365.25Your Analysis
Level 1Step 1 — Drag a box across one dip to measure its depth. Step 2 — Click the centre of two consecutive dips to get the period.