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TheWorkshop on Night Sky Photometer Fabrication was held at IUCAA, duringMarch 12 - 16, 2019, and attended by faculty members from 5 institutions. Using a design developed by the Workshop on Night Sky Photometer Fabrication Instrumentation Laboratory of IUCAA, the participants assembled all the electronic components tomake the night sky photometer. The IUCAAresource persons taught them the art of soldering and assembling the various components. Once the photometer was ready, the participants calibrated the instrument and made observations of the sky and bright stars using a small telescope, on both the terrace at IUCAA, and at the site of the IUCAA Girawali Observatory. This workshop was carried out under the technical supervision of Bhushan Joshi and Vilas Mestry (both from IUCAA) with Ranjan Gupta (IUCAA), and Arvind Paranjpye (Nehru Planetarium, Mumbai) being the additional resource persons. Theworkshopwas coordinated by SayaliAvachat, Manojendu Choudhury andRanjanGupta. NRC and TLC Staff The activities of both IUCAA NRC and TLC have been overseen by Dhruba J. Saikia (Head, NRC and TLC), with Sanjit Mitra (as Faculty Coordinator), Manojendu Choudhury (as Academic Coordinator), Sayali Avachat (as Senior Research Staff), Preethi K. and Chaitra Narayan (as Project Assistants), and Aniket Kadu and Shivraj K. Kshatriya (as Interns). Suchit Hasabnis (SPPU), Vivek Kannadi and Parmeshwar S. Yadav (IISER Pune), and Kamala Kannan (IIT Madras) helped in recording the videos. | KHAG L | No. 118 - APRIL 2019 | 13 The Department of Physics, Providence Women's College, Kozhikode, in collaboration with Academy of Physics Teachers (APT), Kerala and IUCAA, organized a Mini-School on X- ray Astronomy Data Analysis for the benefit of college teachers, during May 22 - 26, 2018. The main aim of the mini- school was to make the participants aware of the theoretical and observational aspects of Multi-wavelength Astronomy and the present challenges in this field. The number of participants was restricted to twenty. The mini-school focused on hands-on sessions only, and the detailed data analysis of the X-ray payloads of AstroSat, LAXPC and SXT were carried out. Participants were divided into groups, and AstroSat data of X-ray objects like, LMXBs, AGNs, etc. were assigned to each group. By the end of the school, participants were able to complete the preliminary analysis, and come up with early results. Savithri Ezhikode (St. Thomas College, Kozhenchery), Ranjeev Misra (IUCAA), Sneha Prakash (Christ University, Bengaluru), and Jithesh V. (IUCAA) were the resource persons. The coordinators of the school were Jeena Karunakaran (Providence Women's College), and Ranjeev Misra. Mini-School on X-ray Astronomy Data Analysis