  We report the atmospheric turbulence parameters namely, atmospheric seeing,
the tilt-anisoplanatic angle ($\theta_0$) and the coherence time ($\tau_0$),
measured under various sky conditions, at Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur.
Bursts of short exposure images of selected stars were recorded with a
high-speed, frame-transfer CCD mounted on the Cassegrain focus of a newly
commissioned 1.3 m telescope. The estimated median seeing is $ \approx
1.85^{\prime\prime} $ at wavelength of $\sim 600$ nm, the image motion
correlation between different pairs of stars is $\sim 44\%$ for $\theta_0
\approx 36^{\prime\prime}$ and mean $\tau_0$ is $\approx 2.4$ ms. This work was
motivated by the design considerations and expected the performance of an
adaptive optics system that is currently being planned for the telescope.
