{"id":24054,"date":"2018-12-06T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24054"},"modified":"2018-12-01T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:16:44","slug":"giving-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24054","title":{"rendered":"Giving Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is odd working at a place that everyone wants to visit.  To be expected working at the world&#8217;s best observatory, after a dozen years the novelty of the situation has never grown old.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_24053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24053\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=24053\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24053\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/CJ16-83-18167-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kama\u2018\u0101ina Observatory Experience Tour at Keck\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-24053\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kama\u2018\u0101ina Observatory Experience Tour group visiting Keck 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>I enjoy leading a tour through the building.  Doing a tour gives me a chance to vicariously see the facility through my audience&#8217;s eyes, seeing this special place afresh, to renew the fascination and wonder.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am a fairly good tour guide, everyone says so, they might be right.  Certainly after a decade of tours I have heard most of the questions and have ready and well rehearsed answers.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_21036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21036\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=21036\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21036\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/CI48-78-17030-DC-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at the primary mirror of the Keck 1 telescope\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-21036\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking at the primary mirror of the Keck 1 telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure>Inside tours of Keck Observatory are currently only available two ways&#8230;  Know someone who works at the observatory, or take one of the monthly <a href=\"http:\/\/kamaainaobservatoryexperience.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kama\u2018\u0101ina Observatory Experience<\/a> tours offered through \u2018Imiloa and supported by all of the Mauna Kea observatories.<\/p>\n<p>The KOE tour is free, but open to Hawaii residents only, you have to have a Hawaii ID to go.  Each month the tours visit two observatories, rotating through the various observatories on the summit.  The tours are also immensely popular, filling up very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>This coming Saturday the KOE tours will visit the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory.  If you are on one of the morning tours, yes, I will be there, leading a tour through our facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is odd working at a place that everyone wants to visit. To be expected working at the world&#8217;s best observatory, after a dozen years the novelty of the situation has never grown old. I enjoy leading a tour through the building. Doing a tour gives me a chance to vicariously see the facility through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=24054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving Tours&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[41,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25172,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24054\/revisions\/25172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}