Observing proposals are invited in response to the Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for open time Cycle A05. This announcement will cover one year observing period from October 2018 to September 2019. The one year cycle is open for proposers from various institutes all over the world. The allocation of observing time will be divided as follows: Open (Indian) 65%, Open (International) 20%, CSA 5%, UoL 3%, Target of Opportunity 5%, Calibration 2%. Final selection of submitted proposals will be based on peer review by the AstroSat Time Allocation Committee (ATAC). Open time cycle (A05) Timeline
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Announcement of Opportunity : 02 Feb 2018
Proposal submission deadline : 23 March 2018, 13:30 Hrs IST ( 08:00 UT )
Observing period : Oct 2018 - Sept 2019
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New!!
Press Release
- Malin 1's cannibalistic nature unearthed
- NASA's Space Observatories and India's AstroSat Capture Dramatic Eruptions from Stellar Wreckage around a Massive Black Hole
- AstroSat uses its full Multi-Wavelength Capability for the first time to unravel the Secrets of the Black Hole X-ray Binary MAXI J1820+070
- AstroSat’s CZT Imager detects polarised high energy X-rays from the accreting black hole Cygnus X-1
- The mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight towards Earth, astronomers say !
- Witnessing the ‘live’ formation of dwarf galaxies with AstroSat's ultraviolet-eye
28.07.26 UVIT level2 pipeline software(V7.0.2) New!!
13.04.26 Workshop on AstroSat & XPOSAT Data Analysis
04.03.25 Currently the ToO proposal submissions are suspended
16.10.24 Processing Status of UVIT Observations available
05.01.24 New SXT pipeline (Version 1.5) is released
08.08.23 UVITTools.jl: A Package for AstroSat/UVIT Grating Spectroscopy and Aperture Photometry
07.09.21: Problem of gaps in X-centroid in the L1 data of UVIT
01.09.21: The JAA has published a special issue titled "AstroSat: 5 years in orbit"

