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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 photographs of the Bangalore and Kodaikanal campuses library of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. Photographs of the reading area, serial display, stacks, and some of the presentations held in the library area are preserved in the album.

The item was about the IIA astronomers detected an expanding disc or a shell of gas around the supernova 1987A in the large Magellanic cloud with a velocity of 650km per second.

This item was about the French Father Richaud made the first astronomical discovery on Indian soil. In 1689, when he discovered the double star Alpha Centauri using a 12-foot telescope in Pondicherry. He also determined the latitude and longitude of Pondicherry.