{"id":1997,"date":"2012-01-05T23:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:22:24","slug":"20-inch-51-meters-telescope-for-republic-observatory-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"20 Inch (.51 Meters) Telescope for Republic Observatory, South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/southafrica4domes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1999\" title=\"southafrica4domes\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/southafrica4domes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/southafrica4domes.jpg 591w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/southafrica4domes-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a>The 20 Inch Boller and Chivens telescope is housed in the dome on the far right.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic Observatory is now called South African Astronomical Observatory as the original Republic Observatory, along with several other South African observatories, was closed due to light pollution. Visit the South African Astronomical Observatory website, for more information on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saao.ac.za\/facilities\/telescopes\/05-m\/\">20 Inch Boller and Chivens telescope.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 20 Inch Boller and Chivens telescope is housed in the dome on the far right. The Republic Observatory is now called South African Astronomical Observatory as the original Republic Observatory, along with several other South African observatories, was closed due to light pollution. Visit the South African Astronomical Observatory website, for more information on [&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-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}