GROWTH Telescope

Worked as Post Doctoral Researcher in Prof. G.C. Anupama’s goup from June 2017 to August 2017. I wasn involved in the design of filter wheel controller and the telescope -dome integration. Lists of Tasks I was involved in:-

Design and development and testing of filter wheel controller.
Work on Embedded software of the filter wheel controller.
Installation of filter wheel on GROWTH telescope at IAO Hanle.
Work on Telescope and Dome integration using Maxdome controller.
Installation of Boltwood cloud sensor.

Lab testing of Filter Wheel and controller.
Inside of Filter wheel unit with filters mounted.
GROWTH Telescope with Filter wheel and camera installed.
Outside view of GROWTH telescope.

Click on the Publication links below for more details: –

Harsh Kumar et al., “India’s First Robotic Eye for Time-domain Astrophysics: The GROWTH-India Telescope,” The Astronomical Journal 164, 90 (2022).