A visit to GMRT Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at Junnar was organized by the ATL department for interested students of std 6 to std 10. 70 students and 4 teachers visited the GMRT campus on Friday 25.11.22.

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Pune, Junnar, near Narayangaon at Khodad in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter, observing at metre wavelengths. It is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. It was conceived and built under the direction of Late Prof. Govind Swarup during 1984 to 1996.[1] It is an interferometric array with baselines of up to 25 kilometres. It was recently upgraded with new receivers, after which it is also known as the Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT).

Students asked various questions on the working of telescope and the use of telescopes. Students enjoyed this study tour.