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The Workshop on Night Sky Photometer Fabrication was held from March 12 to 16, 2019 and attended by faculty members from 5 institutions. Using a design developed by the Instrumentation Laboratory of IUCAA, the participants assembled all the electronic components to make the night sky photometer. The IUCAA resource persons taught them the art of soldering and assembling the various components. Once the photometer was ready, the participants calibrated the instrument, made observations of the sky and bright stars using a small telescope from both the terrace at IUCAA, Pune and the site of the IUCAA Girawali Observatory. This workshop was carried out under the technical supervision of IUCAA Instrumentation Laboratory, in particular Bhushan Joshi and Vilas Mestry, and with Ranjan Gupta from IUCAA and Arvind Paranjpye from Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai were the additional resource persons. The workshop was coordinated by Sayali Avachat, Manojendu Choudhury and Ranjan Gupta, all from IUCAA. Workshop on Night Sky Photometer Fabrication ( 35 )