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The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT, as it is known) is a cylindrical paraboloid of reflecting surface, 530 m long and 30 m wide, placed on a hill whose slope of about 11 degree in the north-south direction which is the same as the latitude of the location of ORT, which makes possible to track celestial objects.

Institute Details
Radio Astronomy Centre
NCRA - TIFR
Post Box No - 8
Udhagamandalam
Dist: Nilgiris State: Tamilnadu
PIN: 643 001.
  • 0423 2244880 / 2244800
  • www@rac.ncra.tifr.res.in
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