Akash Anandh
Akash is an Amateur Astronomer, Astrophotographer, and Science Communicator, from Chennai, India, and is currently based in Singapore. He has been part of the Management Committee of The Astronomical Society of Singapore (TASOS) for the past three years. He is passionate about astronomy and astrophotography, and shares his passion with others by conducting talks, outreach programmes, and astrophotography workshops in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India. He represents TASOS at various outreach programmes, media interactions, and at the Singapore Science Centre's Observatory, where he volunteers every week to interact with students and the general public, showing them the gems of the night sky through the observatory's telescope. Akash's work has been featured by the European Space Agency, BBC, Channel News Asia, in Space.com's Top 100 Space Photos of 2016, as well as in other astronomy and news websites around the world. His work has also been exhibited at the National Library Board of Singapore and Canon Singapore.