Vainu Bappu Observatory

Tirupattur district, India

The Vainu Bappu Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. It is located at Kavalur in the Javadi Hills, near Vaniyambadi in Tirupathur district, Vellore region in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is 200 km south-west of Chennai and 175 km south-east of Bengaluru.

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