{"id":296,"date":"2011-08-19T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2020-12-30T06:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T22:45:58","slug":"24-inch-telescope-for-university-of-california-lick-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"24 Inch (.61 meter) Telescope for University of California Lick Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.Bob_.Poindexter.600dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-719\" title=\"B&amp;C.24in.UC.Lick.Bob.Poindexter.600dpi\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.Bob_.Poindexter.600dpi-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.Bob_.Poindexter.600dpi-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.Bob_.Poindexter.600dpi-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Bob Poindexter, the Boller and Chivens director of engineering<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.detail.2400dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-720\" title=\"B&amp;C.24in.UC.Lick.detail.2400dpi\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.detail.2400dpi-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.detail.2400dpi-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.detail.2400dpi-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.24in.UC_.Lick_.detail.2400dpi-410x300.jpg 410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This telescope is no longer in use at the Lick Observatory. The Lick website states, &#8220;24-inch Photometric Telescope: This telescope appears to have been built between 1955 and 1961. It was a Boller and Chivens. In early 1995 it was dismantled and replaced by the KAIT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent comment left on this site has updated information about the location of this telescope: Hye-Sook Park at Livermore Lab was looking for a suitable scope for an experiment.\u00a0 She refurbished it and sent it to Kitt Peak as Super-LOTIS. Here is the only live link I could find on the web:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swift.gsfc.nasa.gov\/head04\/4.2_Milne.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/swift.gsfc.nasa.gov\/head04\/4.2_Milne.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1609367017374000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXOwISITgF75MDrkhvjYXk4cC9QQ\">https:\/\/swift.gsfc.nasa.gov\/he<wbr \/>ad04\/4.2_Milne.pdf<\/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>Bob Poindexter, the Boller and Chivens director of engineering This telescope is no longer in use at the Lick Observatory. The Lick website states, &#8220;24-inch Photometric Telescope: This telescope appears to have been built between 1955 and 1961. It was a Boller and Chivens. In early 1995 it was dismantled and replaced by the KAIT.&#8221; [&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-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}