Sampurnanand Telescope (ST)

10pointer26 Oct, 2022Education

10POINTER- The Governor of Uttarakhand recently highlighted the need for discussing future possibilities of the 104 cm Sampurnanand Telescope (ST), at a workshop organised to commemorate the completion of 50 years of successful operations of the telescope. About It is a world-class telescope located near Nainital. The telescope at Manora Peak was established in 1972 when ARIES was known as the UP State Observatory (UPSO). It has been extensively used for optical observations of comets, occultation by planets and asteroids, star-forming regions and star clusters, variable stars, transients, active galactic nuclei, etc.