{"id":1956,"date":"2012-01-05T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T22:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","slug":"24-inch-61-meter-telescope-for-university-of-canterbury-observatory-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"24 Inch (.61 meter) Telescope for University of Canterbury Observatory, New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterbury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1957\" title=\"canterbury\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterbury.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterbury.jpg 479w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterbury-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz\/research\/mt_john\/facilities.shtml\">University of Canterbury website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Text below from:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekapotourism.co.nz\/info\/mt_john.html\"> http:\/\/www.tekapotourism.co.nz\/info\/mt_john.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1970 the 60cm (24inch) Optical Craftsmen (the &#8216;OC&#8217;) telescope was installed.<br \/>\nFive years later a second 60cm telescope made by Boller and Chivens (the &#8216;B&amp;C&#8217;) was erected.\u00a0 The Observatory now operates entirely as a field station of the University of Canterbury&#8217;s Department of Physics and Astronomy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzealandsky.com\/earthandsky\/mt_john\/mt_john.html#telescopes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1958\" title=\"canterburytelescope\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterburytelescope.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterburytelescope.jpg 243w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/canterburytelescope-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a>For more information about this telescope, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthandskynz.com\/earthandsky\/mt_john\/mt_john.html\">Earth and Sky website<\/a>.<\/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 University of Canterbury website. Text below from: http:\/\/www.tekapotourism.co.nz\/info\/mt_john.html In 1970 the 60cm (24inch) Optical Craftsmen (the &#8216;OC&#8217;) telescope was installed. Five years later a second 60cm telescope made by Boller and Chivens (the &#8216;B&amp;C&#8217;) was erected.\u00a0 The Observatory now operates entirely as a field station of the University of Canterbury&#8217;s Department of Physics 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-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","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=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}