{"id":396,"date":"2011-08-19T23:08:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=396"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:24:43","slug":"moderations-to-the-1898-warner-swasey-16-inch-refractor-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Modifications to the 1862 Warner &#038; Swasey 18.5 Inch Refractor Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.L.300dpi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-756\" title=\"B&amp;C.installation.1961.12.26.job.2953.Don.Winans.L.300dpi\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.L.300dpi-744x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.L.300dpi-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.L.300dpi-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Located at Northwestern University, Illinois, Dr. J. Allan Hynek, director of Astronomy.<br \/>\nDon Winans, on the left and Dave Jeremiah on the right, both of Boller and Chivens.<br \/>\nThe telescope was completely disassembled. All iron metal parts sandblasted and repainted. Modern upgraded Right Ascension and Declination drives were manufactured and installed.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Jeremiah on the left and Don Winans on the right, both of Boller and Chivens.<br \/>\nInstalling the new declination gear and declination counter weight.<a href=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-757\" title=\"B&amp;C.installation.1961.12.26.job.2953.Don.Winans.R\" src=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.R-1024x779.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.R-1024x779.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.R-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BC.installation.1961.12.26.job_.2953.Don_.Winans.R-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>To see this telescope in action, watch this video.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HdU7vTqvKuQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Located at Northwestern University, Illinois, Dr. J. Allan Hynek, director of Astronomy. Don Winans, on the left and Dave Jeremiah on the right, both of Boller and Chivens. The telescope was completely disassembled. All iron metal parts sandblasted and repainted. Modern upgraded Right Ascension and Declination drives were manufactured and installed. Dave Jeremiah on the [&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-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","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=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bollerandchivens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}