The Bok Prize consists of a cash prize of $500 and a bronze Medal. It is awarded to the senior undergraduate student submitting the best research report or substantial essay on an astronomical topic. The prize is awarded annually, and is usually presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

A request for submissions for the award in a given year is usually emailed out to the ASA membership late in each year, with the closing date for entries on 31 December of the same year.

Conditions of entry for the award are:

1. The Bok Prize in Astronomy will be awarded to the undergraduate student submitting the best research report or substantial essay on an astronomical topic.
2. A candidate must be an undergraduate student of a least two years standing (at 30 June during the year of the award) or an Honours year student at an Australian university, or have equivalent status.
3. Each entry must be accompanied by a statement from the candidate's lecturer or supervisor indicating the relationship of the submission to the student's course requirements, and a confidential statement on the originality of the submission.
4. The decision of the assessment panel for the Bok Prize in Astronomy is final (including any decision that no entry is of sufficient merit for the Prize to be awarded in a particular year).

5. Envelopes containing entries should be endorsed 'Bok Prize in Astronomy', and addressed to:

   Dr John O'Byrne
   Secretary, Astronomical Society of Australia
   School of Physics
   University of Sydney
   N.S.W. 2006
   

6. Electronic copies of the report will be accepted, but a covering letter is still required.