Kodaikanal's Sungazers

Devendran, a 55-year-old observer, positions the six-inch telescope at the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India, February 6, 2017. In the early morning darkness, Devendran P. walks up a hill to a solar observatory in India's southern hill town of Kodaikanal, trudging the same path his father and grandfather walked in a century-old family tradition of studying the sun. Once inside, he pulls a rope to open shutters in the dome and positions a six-inch telescope used since 1899 to photograph the sun and preserve a daily record of its activity. “The sun, like stars, has a lifetime of 10 billion years”, Devendran told Reuters during a recent visit to the observatory in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. “If you want to know about any small changes, you need to have a large amount of data”. The observatory run by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics has a key role in providing a continuous stream of data on the sun and its influence on Earth and surrounding space, said R. Ramesh, a professor at the institute. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)
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