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Tiruchirappalli, India (PTI) Jul 02, 2009 The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics was developing a payload for Indian Space Research Organisation's proposed solar mission Aditya to study the Sun's outermost region corona, a scientist of the institute said on Monday. The payload would be included in Aditya, a mini satellite, being developed by ISRO to study emissions taking place in the Sun during solar maxim, Prof S Chatterjee told reporters here. On the solar telescope, the country's largest, to be installed by the IIA in the Himalayan ranges to study Sun, he said it would be located in Ladakh District of Jammu and Kashmir and the exact site would be finalised shortly. He said the IIA was also involved in development of an ultra Violet imaging instrument which would be one of the five science payloads for the country's astronomy satellite ASTROSAT, which would facilitate study of a range of astrophysical objects, proposed for launch in 2011. The images and data generated by the instrument would lead to new vistas of research in astro-physics, he added. Chatterjee was in the city in connection with celebration of international year of astronomy at the Anna Science Centre.
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