Submit this form at least 15 days before your preferred date of visit.
You are requested to strictly follow the health guidelines before and while visiting Leh and Hanle. IIA will not be responsible for the same.
The IAO is open from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, and again from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM on ALL days.
There is no entrance fee.
Since IAO is purely a scientific research observatory, there will be NO provision to look through any telescope, and accepts visitors only in the daytime at the aforementioned timings.
The visit will include a tour and presentation on the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope and a tour of the MACE facility.
Driving at night (after 5:30 PM) around the observatory and its facilities is strictly prohibited.
You are requested to follow all procedures and disciplines of the institute.
You will be guided by a coordinator and are to not visit any other areas than the ones demarcated for the visit by the coordinator.
Contact information of Astro-Ambassadors for an Astro-Tour can be found on here. Please note that this is a paid tour at a nominal price.