Speaker
Dr
Yogesh Joshi
(Scientist ARIES)
Description
The Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT) was activated on 30 March 2016 and released for the science observations to the national and international scientific community in March 2017. Initially two main instruments, one CCD Imager and other infra-red camera TIRCAM2 are made available on the main ports of the 3.6-m telescope and scientific observations are successfully being carried out through these instruments at DOT. However, there are many other instruments proposed for the 3.6-m DOT e.g. near-infrared spectrometer (TANSPEC), Faint object spectrograph (FOSC), high-resolution spectrograph (HRS), Devasthal fast photometer, and some of them are in advance stage of completion. In this talk, I'll brief the evolution of the telescope at the remote site of the Devasthal during last few years as well as present the status of the available as well as future instruments which will be available to scientific community in near future.
Primary author
Dr
Yogesh Joshi
(Scientist ARIES)
