India likely to Build World’s Largest Solar Telescope in 2013

Largest Solar Telescope of India

                              India is quite likely to build world’s largest solar telescope to examine the overall atmosphere of sun and understand the decay process of various sun-spots along with the formation of it. It is quite an ultra modern initiative by the government of India, and it may provide the country enough exposure in the field of space-science in 2013.

                             The project will take place on the icy cool heights of Ladakh, Kashmir, which is another good part of it. Eventually the project will cost at around Rs 300 crore in total, and it is likely to come up at either Merak or Hanle. Both the places are very close to the Pangong lake of Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control with the neighboring country China.

                                                          It has to be mentioned here that currently McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope is the world’s largest solar telescope. It has an aperture size of 1.6 metres, and it is located in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the United States.

                                                          India is planning to build a telescope with an aperture size of two metres i.e. 25% higher than the existing largest one. If everything goes all right, then the telescope should be completed by the year of 2017, and at that time it will claim the tag of “world’s largest telescope” at least for three years. In 2020 United States (US) is expected to build a telescope with an aperture size of four-meter at Hawaii.

                                                         As I have already mentioned the main motto of the said project is to study the formation and decay of sun-spots. It would also thoroughly examine subsurface structure of the sun-spots. It will be a glorious moment in the history of India, and along with it India would be able to earn an extra sigh of respect in the field of Astronomy and space technology. As a matter of fact India’s first weather reading centre to be set up in Kolkata quite soon.

                                                         The instrument, which would help the telescope to be compatible with the super night time observations, would be developed in Germany with collaboration with one of the best in the business the Hamburg Observatory. All the other back-end instruments of it would be built in-house only. Eventually India’s ISRO will launch 58 space missions during 12^th plan only.

                                                           India has developed in many ways over last two decades or so, and now it is walking on the path of modernization. It is expected that the country will become a superpower in next two decades or so. The economy and technology of India have improved significantly over the past few years of span.

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