Largest solar telescope soon in Ladakh
Remotely controlled world's largest terrestrial solar telescope will be commissioned in India five years from now and would be located in Ladakh, according to director, Indian Institute of Astrophysics Prof. S.S. Hasan. "The two-meter class (diameter) Solar telescope, which will be the largest in the world, will be set up in Ladakh and the exact location is being decided," "Excitement of modern solar Astronomy". "The project is over Rs 100 crores and will be operational by 2012 and will be made available to all researchers from the world," he said adding it could be remotely operated from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics in Bangalore. Although it is an Indian initiative, large number of solar astronomers are in the advisory board in addition to scientists from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Physical Research Laboratory, Interuniversity centre for astronomy and astrophysics and others, Hasan said. The two other solar telescope slightl...