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Bhatt, B. C.
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B. C. Bhatt is an Associate Professor in the Research Division of Stellar and Galactic Astronomy at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, where he has been serving since 1994. His expertise lies in observational astronomy, with research interests spanning stellar evolution, star formation, and photometric studies. Early in his career, he contributed to the site-testing and characterization of Hanle in Ladakh, which later became home to India’s high-altitude astronomical observatory.