{"id":4583,"date":"2012-06-06T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2012-06-06T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T23:26:22","slug":"the-purple-refractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"The Purple Refractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2757\" target=\"_blank\">purple refractor<\/a> was quite the hit on yesterday&#8217;s webcast.  Not only did it provide beautiful imagery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=229\">Transit of Venus<\/a> for everyone to enjoy, but caught the attention of many viewers.  There we many comments&#8230;  &#8220;Where can I get one?&#8221;, &#8220;How much?&#8221;, and my favorite&#8230;  &#8220;&#8230;paint Keck purple!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=2757\">Violet Haze<\/a> really is a great telescope, an entirely hand-made instrument, with the exception of the focuser.  The lens set is a full apochromatic triplet by <a href=\"http:\/\/bobmay.astronomy.net\/refractor\/Refrindex.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Ceragioli<\/a>, a true expert in refractor design and manufacture.  The purple optical tube is my own machine work.  The result is a truly unique telescope that is a joy to use.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4426\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=4426\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4426\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CE54-36-12149-DC.jpg\" alt=\"Imaging Venus in the Daytime\" title=\"Imaging Venus in the Daytime\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CE54-36-12149-DC.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CE54-36-12149-DC-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Imaging Venus in the daytime a mere 12\u00b044&#039; from the Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the purple refractor was quite the hit on yesterday&#8217;s webcast. Not only did it provide beautiful imagery of the Transit of Venus for everyone to enjoy, but caught the attention of many viewers. There we many comments&#8230; &#8220;Where can I get one?&#8221;, &#8220;How much?&#8221;, and my favorite&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;paint Keck purple!&#8221; Violet Haze really is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=4583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Purple Refractor&#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":[206],"tags":[207,471,158,249],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583"}],"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=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}