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Padmakar Parihar is an astronomer and instrumentation specialist whose work centers on the development of automated systems for ground-based optical astronomy. His primary research areas include robotic telescope control, CCD photometry, and the automation of astronomical data reduction pipelines. Parihar made a significant contribution with the creation of ARCO, a program designed for the Automatic Reduction of CCD Observations. This pipeline, which integrates IRAF and DAOPHOTII tasks, addresses the critical need for fully automated data processing in the era of robotic observatories—such as the ICE-T telescope at Dome-C—where vast volumes of photometric data are collected without human intervention. More recently, Parihar led the upgrade of the 50cm telescope at the Indian Astronomical Observatory, developing a low-cost telescope control system (TCS) and observatory control software (OCS) that enables precise pointing and tracking. While his papers have modest citation counts (4 and 2, respectively), their practical impact is evident in enabling high-throughput, unattended observations. His work is particularly valuable for researchers and students interested in the engineering challenges of modern, autonomous observatories.