Kodaikanal Solar Observatory

While lush green hill stations like Kodaikanal are already amazing places to visit for travellers, a place like the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory makes it an even more exciting destination. Popular among both the locals and travellers from all parts, the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory is located on the southern tip of the Palani Hills, at a distance of about four kilometres from the Kodaikanal town, in Dindigul district. Owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, the observatory is known to have two scientists, 19 technicians and high-end equipments such as Doppler radar, a LaCour magnetometer and a Watson magnetometer, broadband seismograph, GPS receiver and magnetic variometers, ionosondes, Solar tunnel telescope and full disc imaging.