{"id":4492,"date":"2012-05-30T23:31:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T09:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2012-05-31T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T15:55:12","slug":"jcmt-and-ukirt-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"JCMT and UKIRT Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news that two of the telescopes atop Mauna Kea will be losing funding.  Word comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/apacificview.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/devastated.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom on his blog Pacific View<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2022 extend operation of JCMT to end September 2014, to allow for completion of the agreed science programme for the SCUBA-2 instrument on the JCMT<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 cease STFC support for the operation of UKIRT from end September 2013, a year after the completion of its current survey programme<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These shutdowns have been threatened for some time.  It is disheartening to learn that the worst outcome is now reality.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4493\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4493\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4493\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CC36-45-08314-DM.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset Behind UKIRT\" title=\"Sunset Behind UKIRT\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4493\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UKIRT opening for a night of observing atop Mauna Kea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news that two of the telescopes atop Mauna Kea will be losing funding. Word comes from Tom on his blog Pacific View&#8230; \u2022 extend operation of JCMT to end September 2014, to allow for completion of the agreed science programme for the SCUBA-2 instrument on the JCMT \u2022 cease STFC support for the operation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4492\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JCMT and UKIRT Closing&#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":[32,8],"tags":[468,88,158,467],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492"}],"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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}