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104cm Sampurnanand Telescope

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104cm Sampurnanand Telescope    The 104-cm Sampurnanand Telescope, located at ARIES, Manora Peak, Nainital, is one of the the main observing facility in optical domain. It was installed in 1972 by Carl Zeiss, Germany. About the Telescope The telescope is an RC reflector with a Cassegrain focus and mounted on equatorial 2-pier english mount. The 104-cm, f/13 telescope produce a field of around 45 arcmin with corrector at the cassegrain end. The tracking accuracy is around 7 arcsec/hr (0.1 arcsec/min) without guider and is around 0.7 arcsec/hr with guider. Three finder telescopes are also provided with clear aperture of around 10-inch (264 mm, f/14, reflector), 8-inch (200 mm, f/15, refractor) and 4-inch (110 mm, f/7, refractor type). Scientific Importance Milkyway over 104 cm telescope dome at night. Different scientific programs such as; study of star-clusters, young star-forming regions, HII regions, AGN and brown dwarfs, optical counterpart of Gamma-ray-bursts(GRBs), superno

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