GROWTH India
GROWTH-India is India's first fully robotic optical research telescope. This was constructed as a joint partnership between the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, with support from DST-SERB and IUSSTF. Current operations benefit from the generous support of the IIT Bombay alumni batch of 1994. The primary research focus of this telescope is time-domain astronomy: the study of explosive transients and variable sources in the universe.
We are a part of the international GROWTH network: a Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen. Together with various partners around the world, we can continuously monitor any interesting object in the sky - uninterrupted by daylight !
Site
The telescope is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory site at Hanle, Ladakh. Situated at 4500 meters above mean sea level, this is one of the highest observatory sites in the world and one of the best telescope locations in the country.
The GROWTH-India telescope joins The Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT), the gamma-ray array telescope (HAGAR), and the imaging Cherenkov telescope (MACE) at this site.
More information available on GROWTH INDIA WEBSITE