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Hanle Observatory on Digpa Tarsa Ri (4472 m)

It has a 2 metre reflecting telescope., and is one of the highest such observatories in the world.

 

Future shock.

 

Going through miles and miles of barren mountains and high deserts passing a 450 year old gompa, ancient mane walls, nomadic Changpas migrating with their pashmina goats, yaks and belongings to an another ribo (temporary camp) in a ritual unchanged for hundreds of years to

 

turn a hill and see these high tech observatories powered by solar panels covering about half an acre. Internet connections. Sat phones. All this remote controlled from Bangalore about 2500 kms away!

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Uploaded on December 19, 2010
Taken on December 13, 2010