Current Activities
Areas of current interest at the Observatory are
- Observations and interpretation of the morphological changes in active regions and their role in occurrence of transients such as solar flares.
- Study of contributing factors to chromospheric calcium K indices.
- Measurement of vector magnetic fields.
- Photographs of ~ 100 years are being digitized for long term studies of the last ten solar cycles.
- Studies on the structure and dynamics of equatorial ionosphere and its response to the solar and interplanetary variability are being carried out.
- Studies of the equatorial electrojet and of the structure and dynamics of equatorial ionosphere and its response to solar and interplanetary variability are being made.
- Hourly observation of surface temperature, pressure and rainfall are made here and transmitted to the India Meteorological Department and the World Meteorological Organization for use in Weather forecasting and research in the atmospheric sciences.
- Public Education about astronomy including public tours of the facility, public access to the astronomy library, public night time telescopic sky viewing, and presentation of speciaized university level courses, seminars and workshops.
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