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National Large Solar Telescope
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<h2 id="location">Location</h2> <p>The proposed site for the location of the telescope is Merak village in Ladakh, India. The village is near <a href="/facts/Pangong_Tso/4sISUwT6">Pangong Lake</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="telescope">Telescope</h2> <p>NLST is proposed to be on-axis <a href="/facts/Altazimuth_mount/AhXsnY0f">alt-azimuth</a> <a href="/facts/Gregorian_telescope/Sp8cI5jH">Gregorian</a> multi-purpose open telescope with the provision of carrying out night time stellar observations using a spectrograph.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> It hopes to resolve features on the <a href="/facts/Sun/CadPCVHh">Sun</a> of the size of about 0.1 arcsec. The focal plane instruments are to include a high-resolution polarimeteric package to measure polarization with an accuracy of 0.01 per cent, a high-spectral-resolution spectrograph to obtain spectra in 5 widely separated absorption lines simultaneously, and high-spatial-resolution narrow-band imagers in various lines.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Lists_of_telescopes/1LVPljYb">Lists of telescopes</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_solar_telescopes/F2lfHHfa">List of solar telescopes</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Indian_Astronomical_Observatory/CdVdQCFM">Indian Astronomical Observatory</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Hasan, S. S. (1 February 2010). "The Indian National Large Solar Telescope (NLST)". NASA/ADS. 264: 499–504. doi:10.1017/S1743921309993206. <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010IAUS..264..499H" target="_blank">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010IAUS..264..499H</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"India To Build World's Largest Solar Telescope". Spacedaily.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100905195255/http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/India_To_Build_World_Largest_Solar_Telescope_999.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100905195255/http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/India_To_Build_World_Largest_Solar_Telescope_999.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>IANS (2 September 2010). "India to build world's largest solar telescope". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100903074607/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/india-build-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-999" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100903074607/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/india-build-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-999</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>IANS (2 September 2010). "India to build world's largest solar telescope". Deccan Chronicle. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010. Retrieved 23 December 2010. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100903074607/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/india-build-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-999" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100903074607/http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/india-build-worlds-largest-solar-telescope-999</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Hasan, S. S. (1 February 2010). "The Indian National Large Solar Telescope (NLST)". NASA/ADS. 264: 499–504. doi:10.1017/S1743921309993206. <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010IAUS..264..499H" target="_blank">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010IAUS..264..499H</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Singh, J. Proposed National Solar Telescope Journal of Astrophysics & Astronomy, Vol. 29, No. 1 - 2, pp. 345 - 351 <a href="http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/1758" target="_blank">http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/1758</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>