IIA telescope

16 Archival description results for IIA telescope

IND-IIA-F174-I01 · Item · 09-05-1987
Part of Supernova newspaper clippings

The item was about the design, fabrication, installation, and testing of a prime focus photometer for the 2.34-m M. K. Vainu Bappu Telescope. Photometric observations of a faint, rapid, variable star, 'AM Canum Venaticorum', were obtained during the first series of experiments. Later, Rajamohan was the project leader in discovering new objects in the solar system. Astronomers at IIA are actively engaged in the study of supernova phenomena.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics
IND-IIA-F173-I09 · Item · 25-08-1982
Part of M.K.Vainu Bappu's newspaper clippings

The item was about the rich tributes paid to the noted Indian astronomer M. K. Vainu Bappu. Scientists of Bombay at a condolence meeting held at the Nehru Planetarium on August 22. The director of TIFR said M. K. Vainu Bappu was a giant among astronomers and also suggested that the famous 90-inch telescope should be renamed after him. It also speaks on the M. K. Vainu Bappu-Wilson effect and also the first Indian to discover a comet that had been named after him.

Vainu Bappu, M. K.
IND-IIA-F150 · Fond · 1974

The photographic slides contain images of the 40-inch telescope, its parts like the plate holder, Cass coude ring, and observer guiding at Cass coude focus.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics
IND-IIA-F153 · Fond · 1967-1987

The photographic slides contain images of Ritchey Chretien, Raheem and Nadhan at Kavalur, a rite of the first hut, a 16-inch telescope, a 30-inch drive circuit microprocessor, ribbon cutting at STARS(1977 Jan 23), 6-inch telescope, Schimt telescope, etc in Kavalur Observatory.

Indian Institute of Astrophysics