A 0.7m wide-field telescope arrange in Ladakh as a joint partnership between IIA and IIT Bombay has tracked the speedy movement of the asteroid because it zipped throughout the sky at 10x lunar distance.
Varun Bhalerao, Astrophysicist on the house expertise and astrophysics analysis (STAR) lab at IIT Bombay, posted the picture what telescope captured on social media and stated that the speedy movement of asteroid is so quick that it appears like streaks.
“Final evening, the GROWTH-India Telescope caught this 116m, building-sized asteroid on its closest method to earth! We tracked the speedy movement of the asteroid because it zipped throughout the sky at simply 10x lunar distance. The speedy movement makes background stars appear like streaks,” Bhalerao stated on X.
GROWTH-India is India’s first totally robotic optical analysis telescope. This was constructed as a joint partnership between the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the Indian Institute of Know-how Bombay, with help from DST-SERB and IUSSTF. Present operations profit from the beneficiant help of the IIT Bombay alumni batch of 1994. The first analysis focus of this telescope is time-domain astronomy: the research of explosive transients and variable sources within the universe.
To perform the first science targets, we’d like a telescope that may begin observations inside the first 24 hours of the invention of a transient occasion. The exact positions of those new sources are sometimes unknown, therefore we’d like a large area of view for imaging them.
