{"id":1911,"date":"2012-01-05T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:22:55","slug":"24-inch-61-meter-telescope-for-connecticut-wesleyan-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1911","title":{"rendered":"24 Inch (.61 meter) Telescope for Connecticut Wesleyan University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/24domewesleyan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1912\" title=\"24domewesleyan\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/24domewesleyan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Photo from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleyan.edu\/astro\/vvo\/history.html\">Wesleyan University website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, Van Vleck Observatory acquired the 24-inch (0.06 meter) Perkin reflector telescope. Boller and Chivens, a subsidiary of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, manufactured the 24-inch telescope for Mr. Richard S. Perkin in 1966.\u00a0 After Mr. Richard S. Perkin\u2019s death in 1969, the Perkin family donated the telescope to Wesleyan University.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"24-Inch (.61 meter) Telescope Specifications\" href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=2492\">24-Inch (.61 meter) Telescope Specifications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo from the Wesleyan University website. In 1971, Van Vleck Observatory acquired the 24-inch (0.06 meter) Perkin reflector telescope. Boller and Chivens, a subsidiary of the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, manufactured the 24-inch telescope for Mr. Richard S. Perkin in 1966.\u00a0 After Mr. Richard S. Perkin\u2019s death in 1969, the Perkin family donated the telescope to Wesleyan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}