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One of the clocks is labeled "IST," which I assume means India Standard Time.

Another clocks are labeled "GHY," "HAW," and "BIK." What do they indicate?

Goonhilly, Hawaii, but I can't figure out BIK. They're NASA and ESA tracking stations: https://www.eoportal.org/other-space-activities/estrack, https://www.indiatoday.in/science/chandrayaan-3/story/how-is...

It's a station from DLR in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: https://www.dlr.de/eoc/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-5287/102...

Confirmed: https://landsat.usgs.gov/historical-international-ground-sta...

I'm not very familiar with this source [0], but it states "ESA was providing support to the Chandrayaan-3 mission from three of its ground stations located in Kourou (French Guiana), Goonhilly (United Kingdom), and New Norcia (Western Australia)." Although BIK doesn't obviously map to any of those.

[0] http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/chandrayaan-3-europea....

If the other 2 are NASA and ESA the other BIK is probably a Russian one.

Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Nice catch. It's definitely Baikonur.

Thanks :)

Likely Biak (Indonesia), from https://www.spacetechasia.com/isro-visits-indonesias-space-a...

“ISRO and LAPAN have had a long history of collaboration, with ISRO owning a ground station on the Indonesian island of Biak, which has supported many of India’s launches.”

Fwiw the esa time is the same as Amsterdam Time (cest, get +2)

GHY is probably https://www.goonhilly.org/

So, likely the current time at the location of the radio antennas they're using to communicate with the lander.

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