The coming decade in astronomy focuses on large widefield imaging and spectroscopic surveys. No widefield imaging facility extends to the UV region, which represents an important window into a wide variety of astrophysical ...

The FUV (900-1800 Å) is the richest part of the spectrum in terms of emission lines – O VI (1032/1038 Å) and C IV (1548/1550 Å) from hot gas, C III (977 Å) and N III (1750 Å) from warm gas, and the Lyman and Werner bands ...

Earth’s atmosphere is one of the significant factors affecting the quality of ground-based observations. For off-zenith observations with ground-based astronomical telescopes, the image size on the telescope's focal plane ...

Magnetic field aids in coupling between different layers of the solar atmosphere. The magnetic field information simultaneously at multiple heights is important to understand many physical processes like flares, coronal ...

Thirty meter telescope is one of the new class of extremely large telescopes which have a segmented primary mirror of thirty meter of total aperture that consists of 492 hexagonal segments. Several error sources like ...

The outer most layer of the Sun, also called Corona, reaches temperatures as high as a few million Kelvin much hotter than underlying photosphere and chromosphere. This phenomenon is popularly known as coronal heating. ...

High time-cadence Spectro-Polarimetry allows the feasibility of studying magnetic field evolution coupled with the plasma flows. Such a high cadence solar spectro-polarimetry if developed will allow one to study magnetic ...

A pulsar is a highly magnetized rapidly rotating neutron star. Weighing more than our Sun, yet only about 20 km in diameter, these incredibly dense objects produce radio beams that sweep the sky like a lighthouse. Pulsars ...

The H minus ions prevalent in the sub-photospheric level are found to have minimum opacity at around 1.63 m which makes this wavelength suitable for sub-photospheric observations . Some previous observations by Foukal ...

Imaging Polarimetry of Extended sources is not very common. This project entitled "Dual Beam Imaging Polarimeter" is an attempt to build one for the 1.3m telescope in Kavalur. The Instrument will make use of the Wide field ...