Abstract:
India’s largest 3.6 m aperture optical telescope has
been successfully installed in the central Himalayan
region at Devasthal, Nainital district, Uttarakhand.
The primary mirror of the telescope uses the active
optics technology. The back-end instruments, enabling
spectroscopic and photometric imaging of the celestial
sky are designed and developed by ARIES along
with other Indian institutes. The Devasthal optical
telescope in synergy with two other highly sensitive
telescopes in the country, namely GMRT operating in
the radio wavebands and AstroSat operating in the
high-energy X-ray, ultraviolet and visual wavebands,
will enable Indian astronomers to carry out scientific
studies in several challenging areas of astronomy and
astrophysics.
