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Sampurnanand telescope
November 1 , 2022
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- Sampurnanand telescope marks its golden jubilee year in 2022.
- It was installed and commissioned in 1972.
- 104-cm or one-metre-class optical telescope in Uttarakhand was built which is the oldest to be operational in independent India.
- It had contributed to the discovery of two rings around Saturn, one of which was newly identified then.
- It had also helped in the detection of rings around Uranus and the ring of Neptune was discovered independently using this facility.
- It is located on the Manora peak (1,951 metres above mean sea level) to the southwest of Nainital.
- Three identical telescopes were installed each at Kavalur in Karnataka, at the Osmania University in Hyderabad, and in Nainital around the same time.
- But it is only the Sampurnanand telescope that continues to operate and produce science even today.
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