{"id":5573,"date":"2012-08-19T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2012-08-15T17:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T03:20:39","slug":"control-the-great-refractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5573","title":{"rendered":"Control the Great Refractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The instrument may date to the 1800&#8217;s but at that time it was powered by water and muscle as there was no electricity on the mountain.  It was not until much later, in the middle of the twentieth century that the telescope was refitted with electrical controls and motors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5558\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5558\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CE76-16-12224-DC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CE76-16-12224-DC-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Control the Great Refractor\" title=\"Control the Great Refractor\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CE76-16-12224-DC-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/CE76-16-12224-DC.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5558\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The control console for the 36&#8243; Refractor at Lick Observatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The instrument may date to the 1800&#8217;s but at that time it was powered by water and muscle as there was no electricity on the mountain. It was not until much later, in the middle of the twentieth century that the telescope was refitted with electrical controls and motors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,595],"tags":[592,593,158],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573"}],"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=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}