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 AstrophysicsTelescope
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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.In this notice, Walker mentioned that Prism customs refuses drawbacks unless the contents are opened for identification wire instructions.
Walker, Gilbert T.These photographic slides contain the images of Anglo Australian telescope located at the planetarium Armagh North Ireland.
Planetarium of ArmaghThese photographic slides contains drawings of porters, telescopes, and other astronomical instruments.
Indian Institute of AstrophysicsThese photographic slides contain the images of the spectrometer, and Ondrej telescope related to the Optical Science Department of Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Royal ObservatoryThe photographic slides contain images of the 15-inch telescope in Kavalur from 1969 to 1971.
Vainu Bappu ObservatoryThe photographic slides contain images of the 40-inch telescope control desk, it's construction, reparing of it's dew cap from 1971 to 1984.
Vainu Bappu ObservatoryThe 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 AstrophysicsThe photographic slides contain images of Antarctica by Jagdev Singh. It includes images of the telescope, National Physical Laboratory(NPL) tower, iceberg, lake and mountain in Antarctica.
Singh, Jagdev