{"id":381,"date":"2011-08-19T22:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T22:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:24:43","slug":"optical-testing-equatorial-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Optical Testing Equatorial Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.equatorial.mount_.optical.test_.600dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-747\" title=\"B&amp;C.equatorial.mount.optical.test.600dpi\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.equatorial.mount_.optical.test_.600dpi-685x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.equatorial.mount_.optical.test_.600dpi-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.equatorial.mount_.optical.test_.600dpi-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>A basic Boller and Chivens 16 inch telescope with Right Ascension and Declination drives.<br \/>\nA horseshoe mounting platform replaces the telescope tube.<br \/>\nAny type sky-observing device can be mounted on the platform.<br \/>\nThe mount then is driven to any previously determined object with the mount&#8217;s paddle control.<br \/>\nThe mount is equipped with a Boller and Chivens 4 inch finder telescope and a Boller and Chivens 4 inch guide telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A basic Boller and Chivens 16 inch telescope with Right Ascension and Declination drives. A horseshoe mounting platform replaces the telescope tube. Any type sky-observing device can be mounted on the platform. The mount then is driven to any previously determined object with the mount&#8217;s paddle control. The mount is equipped with a Boller 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomical-mounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","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=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2701,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/2701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}