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The Observatory is located near Guru Shikhar, the highest peak of the Aravalli Range at an altitude of 1680 metres. [1] Mount Abu is about 28 km from the Abu Road railway station and about 240 km from Ahmedabad. MIRO is operated by the Astronomy & Astrophysics Division of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
It also manages the Udaipur Solar Observatory and Mount Abu InfraRed Observatory. The PRL is located in Ahmedabad. The Physical Research Laboratory was founded on 11 November 1947 [3] by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. The laboratory had a modest beginning at his residence, with research on cosmic rays.
Mount Abu InfraRed Observatory: 1995 Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India Mount Burnett Observatory: 1972 Mount Burnett, Victoria, Australia Mount Cuba Astronomical Observatory: Greenville, Delaware, US Mount Graham International Observatory: 1993 Mount Graham, Arizona, US Mount John University Observatory: 1965 Lake Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand ...
Flames from the Eaton fire came perilously close to the Mt. Wilson transmitters, and local stations, including KABC, PBS SoCal and radio KLOS-FM, reported losing transmissions.
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These include the Chacaltaya Astrophysical Observatory in Bolivia, which at 5,230 m (17,160 ft) was the world's highest permanent astronomical observatory [9] from the time of its construction during the 1940s until surpassed in 2009 by the new University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory, [10] an optical-infrared telescope on a remote 5,640 m ...
This isn’t the first time Mt. Wilson has been threatened by fire, most notably by the Station fire in 2009, which burned more than 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.