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Kodaikanal Observatory, Kodaikanal, India  is a part of  Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institution funded by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.  Kodaikanal is one of the most popular hill resorts in India. With its rocks, woods, lakes and bracing air,  it offers  an ideal location for intellectual activity.  The Kodaikanal Observatory  was established in 1899 as a Solar Observatory. It has several  experimental facilities, notably, the solar tunnel telescope, spectrographs, a broadband seismograph, GPS receiver and  magnetic variometers to study the sun and and Sun-Earth connections.  Several national and international workshops have been conducted  in the Observatory in the past. The Kodaikanal Observatory is located at an altitude of 2343 m in the Palani range of hills in southern India.