{"id":195,"date":"2010-10-05T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/?p=195"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:49:11","slug":"observatory-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/archives\/195","title":{"rendered":"Observatory: Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residing within the 1930 observatory was a 5-inch refracting telescope built in 1893 by Alvan Clark &amp; Sons, the preeminent American telescope manufacturer of the late 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The October 22, 1930 edition of the <em>Horae Scholasticae<\/em> includes this information about the Observatory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The telescope and attendant apparati are in every way perfectly equipped.\u00a0 The lens is a five-inch refracting glass made by Alvan Clark &amp; Sons of Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u00a0 It was formerly the property of Mr. Isham.\u00a0 It is mounted on a six-foot cylinder which has four eye-pieces attached to its lower end.\u00a0 The light gathering power of the aperture as compared with the human eye is approximately 625 times as great.\u00a0 The lowest power eye-piece magnifies 48 times, the highest 300 times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residing within the 1930 observatory was a 5-inch refracting telescope built in 1893 by Alvan Clark &amp; Sons, the preeminent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[104],"tags":[220,218,221,190,219],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/olda_000024_w.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ohrstromblog.com\/spsarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}