Ooty Radio Astronomy Centre and Telescope is located at Muthorai, 6 km south-west of Ooty.
It’s part of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). The radio telescope is 530-metre long and 30-metre tall cylindrical parabolic antenna.
The telescope sits on a natural slope of 11°, which matches the latitude of the location. This gives the telescope an equatorial mount that allows tracking of celestial sources for up to ten hours in the east-west direction.
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/gB7qfNY1uWz6GWuh7
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