{"id":1946,"date":"2012-01-05T22:08:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T22:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","slug":"24-inch-61-meter-telescope-for-new-mexico-state-university-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"24 Inch (.61 meter) Telescope for New Mexico State University Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NewMexicoobservatory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1947\" title=\"NewMexicoobservatory\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NewMexicoobservatory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>From NMSU website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">New Mexico State University runs Apache Point Observatory which operates four telescopes but also owns a 24 inch reflector on Tortugus Mountain. This telescope has been used for planetary observations and observations of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its impact on Jupiter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/atnmsu\/cur\/tortugasmountainobservat.html\">This is a very interesting story<\/a> of the history and renovation of the 24 Inch telescope and Tortugas Observatory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And here is a video of the restoration:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PKZPfn9tuxU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>From NMSU website. New Mexico State University runs Apache Point Observatory which operates four telescopes but also owns a 24 inch reflector on Tortugus Mountain. This telescope has been used for planetary observations and observations of the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and its impact on Jupiter. This is a very interesting story of the history and [&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-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","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=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}