3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope
The 3.6m Devasthal (Hindi: देवस्थल) Optical Telescope (DOT) is a clear-aperture Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), located at the Devasthal Observatory site, near Nainital, Kumaon, India. ARIES operates another 1.3m telescope at the same location. The telescope was activated remotely on 31 March 2016 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel from Brussels.
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The 3.6m Devasthal (Hindi: देवस्थल) Optical Telescope (DOT) is a clear-aperture Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), located at the Devasthal Observatory site, near Nainital, Kumaon, India. ARIES operates another 1.3m telescope at the same location. The telescope was activated remotely on 31 March 2016 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel from Brussels.
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The telescope optics were built in collaboration with the Belgian firm Advanced Mechanical and Optical System (AMOS). The 3.6m DOT is currently the largest reflecting telescope in Asia. The telescope intends to fill a large longitudinal gap in the 4m class of telescopes in the Asia region. The telescope features an optical spectrograph, a CCD imager and a near-infrared spectrograph. The telescope is also the first of its kind in India that features an active optics system, featuring a wavefront sensor and pneumatic actuators which compensate for small distortions in the shape of the 4.3 tonne mirror due to gravity or atmospheric aberrations.
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Photometric studies on the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts using 3.6m Devasthal Optical Telescope (2022) — DataCite (arXiv)
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