GMRT, S04 Antenna (Nagapur)

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The GMRT is located around 80 km north of Pune at Khodad[3](Located 19° 5'47.46"N 74° 2'59.07"E). A nearby town is Narayangaon which is around 9 km from the main telescope site. The office of NCRA is located in the University of Pune campus right next to IUCAA.One of the important aims of the telescope is to search for the highly redshifted 21-cm line radiation from primordial neutral hydrogen clouds in order to determine the epoch of galaxy formation in the universe. Pulsar research is another major area for GMRT study.[4]
Astronomers from all over the world regularly use this telescope to observe many different astronomical objects such as HII regions, galaxies, pulsars, supernovae, and sun and solar winds.