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The album contains photos captured during the meeting on UVIT-PDR (Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope on Astrosat) held at IIA Bangalore campus on 3 March 2006. IIA is collaborating with ISRO, Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) to develop an UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT), which is one of the payloads on satellite Astrosat.

The album contains photos taken during the 25th anniversary of the Vainu Bappu Telescope (also called VBT, 2.34m telescope, and 90-inch telescope) installed at Kavalur observatory in 1986. Photos of the jubilee ceremony meeting, presenting a miniature form of the VBT to the persons who were working for VBT by M. G. K. Menon, publishing a book titled ' Vainu Bappu Telescope- Silver Jubilee 2011' by M. G. K. Menon and S. S. Hasan, a talk on the VBT inside the telescope building, exhibition on the theme of VBT in the library of Bangalore campus are organized.

The album contains an original notice and photographs of the Indo-Chinese workshop on recent advances in solar physics on 7-11 November 2005 at IIA Bangalore campus. Photos of talks by experts from India and China, group photos of the participants, team lunch and dinner, and photos taken on the outing are preserved in this album. Some photos of the Indian Japan seminar on astrophysics and astronomy in 1995 can also be seen in the album.