{"id":29445,"date":"2025-01-15T04:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T22:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29445"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T02:38:27","slug":"purulia-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/purulia-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Purulia Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Purulia Observatory:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:\u00a0<\/strong>It is located on the Panchet Hill.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with a\u00a0<strong>14-inch diameter telescope<\/strong>\u00a0for scientific observations.<\/li>\n<li>The observatory is at a height of 600 meters above ground level and at a longitude of approximately 86\u00b0 E.<\/li>\n<li>It will be a major observatory not only in eastern India, but also in the world.<\/li>\n<li>Along the 86 degrees East longitude stretching from the\u00a0<strong>Arctic Ocean<\/strong>\u00a0in the north to Antarctica in the south, there are very few observatories. This observatory will fill that gap.<\/li>\n<li>It will help in scientific observations of\u00a0<strong>astronomical objects, training students<\/strong>\u00a0in handling telescopes and recording data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Other Observatories in India:\u00a0<\/strong>ARIES Observatory, Nainital, (Uttarakhand), Vainu Bappu Observatory, Kavalur (Tamil Nadu) and Indian Astronomical Observatory (IAO), Hanle, Ladakh etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1:Which is the highest telescope observatory in India?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Indian Astronomical Observatory, Hanle -Established in 2001 by Indian Institute of Astrophysics and stands on Mt. Saraswati, (also called Digpa-ratsa Ri) Hanle, this observatory is the second highest optical telescope in the world, at an elevation of 4,500m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2092417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purulia Observatory is equipped with a 14-inch diameter telescope for scientific observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}