National Large Solar Telescope

National Large Solar Telescope
Location(s)Ladakh, India
Telescope styleGregorian telescope
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The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) is a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope[1] proposed in 2010 to be built in Merak village in Ladakh in India and aims to study the sun's microscopic structure.[2]

The Indian Institute of Astrophysics is the nodal agency charged with various scientific bodies like the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational-Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) also participating.[3]

Location

The proposed site for the location of the telescope is Merak village in Ladakh, India. The village is near Pangong Lake.[3]

Telescope

NLST is proposed to be on-axis alt-azimuth Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope with the provision of carrying out night time stellar observations using a spectrograph.[1] It hopes to resolve features on the Sun of the size of about 0.1 arcsec. The focal plane instruments are to include a high resolution polarimeteric package to measure polarization with an accuracy of 0.01 per cent; a high spectral resolution spectrograph to obtain spectra in 5 widely separated absorption lines simultaneously and high spatial resolution narrow band imagers in various lines.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Hasan, S. S. (1 February 2010). "The Indian National Large Solar Telescope (NLST)". NASA/ADS. 264: 499–504. doi:10.1017/S1743921309993206.
  2. ^ "India To Build World's Largest Solar Telescope". Spacedaily.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  3. ^ a b IANS (2 September 2010). "India to build world's largest solar telescope". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
  4. ^ Singh, J. Proposed National Solar Telescope Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy, Vol. 29, No. 1 - 2, pp. 345 - 351