The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavalur in the...
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establish several astronomical institutions in India, including the Vainu Bappu Observatory which is named after him, and he also contributed to the establishment...
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Historic Vellore Fort, Government Museum, Science Park, Vainu Bappu Observatory, Amirthi Zoological Park, Religious Places like Jalakandeswarar Temple...
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Vainu Bappu, minor planet Vainu Bappu Observatory, India Wilson–Bappu effect This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bappu....
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Indian Institute of Astrophysics (category Astronomical observatories in India)
laboratories and observatories in India, including Kodaikanal (the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory), Kavalur (the Vainu Bappu Observatory), Gauribidanur (the...
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This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small...
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M. Kathir Anand from the DMK. Asia's second-largest telescope, Vainu Bappu Observatory of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is situated at Kavalur...
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This is a partial list of astronomical observatories ordered by name, along with initial dates of operation (where an accurate date is available) and...
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solar flux. The Observatory has a 48-inch telescope, the second largest in Asia, after the 93-inch instrument at Vainu Bappu Observatory in Tamil Nadu,...
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Tirupathur district, Tamil Nadu, India. The village hosts the Vainu Bappu Observatory (VBO), which was established in the 1970s, and contains the 1-meter...
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Tirupathur. In the middle of this hill lies the Vainu Bappu Observatory (also known as Kavalur Observatory), which has several optical and reflective telescopes...
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VBO may refer to: Vainu Bappu Observatory Vertex Buffer Object, an OpenGL extension for faster rendering of triangles Verbond van Belgische Ondernemingen...
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the solar 11-year sunspot cycle, in other stars. In collaboration with Vainu Bappu, an Indian astronomer, he also showed that there was a correlation between...
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located at 18 km from Vaniyambadi. Alangayam is 8 km from the famous Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur. This town is surrounded by mountains on all sides,...
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(organization) Vainu Bappu Observatory, located in India VBT – (telescope) Vainu Bappu Telescope, located at Vainu Bappu Observatory VCC – (catalog)...
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Royds 1923–1937 A. L. Narayan 1937–1946 Anil Kumar Das 1946–1960 M. K. Vainu Bappu 1960–1982 J.C.Bhattacharya 1982-1990 Ramnath Cowsik 1992 - 2003 S.Siraj...
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Jantar Mantar, New Delhi (category Astronomical observatories in India)
There is a plaque fixed on one of the structures in the Jantar Mantar observatory in New Delhi that was placed there in 1910 mistakenly dating the construction...
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institutions in India including the Vainu Bappu Observatory and the modern Indian Institute of Astrophysics. Bappu was the first Indian to have a comet...
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telescopes "Large Zenith Telescope". Atlas Obscura. "Crimean Astrophysical Observatory". Crao.crimea.ua. Archived from the original on 21 September 2009. Retrieved...
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professionals from related disciplines. It was founded in 1972, with Vainu Bappu being the founder President of the Society, and as of 2010 has a membership...
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refractors as the Yerkes Observatory. This table does not include all the 20th largest mirrors manufactured; the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab produced the...
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Scientists Prize in Astrophysics award. In 2010, she was honoured with the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India. Asteroid 198634 Burgaymarta...
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the Jawadhi hills. The Indian astronomer Vainu Bappu selected the hills as the site of the Kavalur Observatory (VBO), which began operations in 1967. There...
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Kodaikanal Observatory under the guidance of Prof. M K. Vainu Bappu. He was awarded the Carnegie Fellowship to work at Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, USA...
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Kharagpur, and moved to the United States with him. Her thesis advisor was Vainu Bappu. Her dissertation (1968) investigated the line asymmetry in sunspots...
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Pacific. 70 (415): 404. Bibcode:1958PASP...70..404M. doi:10.1086/127247. Vainu Bappu, M. K.; Sinvhal, S. D. (1 February 1960). "Polarization Measures of Comet...
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Jantar Mantar (redirect from Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh)
and Varanasi; they were completed between 1724 and 1735. Of these, the observatory at Mathura and the fort that protected it were destroyed before 1857...
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Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) in 2015 and the international INSA-Vainu Bappu Memorial award in 2016. He won the Infosys Prize 2016 in the Physical...
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of astronomical objects with a long career at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and at the International Astronomical Union (IAU). He discovered...
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and/or teaching at the Jodrell Bank Observatory of the University of Manchester, National Radio Astronomy Observatory USA, Queen's University at Kingston...
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