{"id":5867,"date":"2012-10-27T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T06:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5867"},"modified":"2012-10-27T20:43:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T06:43:28","slug":"large-binocular-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5867","title":{"rendered":"Large Binocular Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Dean Ketelsen is visiting the island with his wonderful wife, Melinda and a few family members.  Dean grinds big glass for a living, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/mirrorlab.as.arizona.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">8.4m telescope mirrors for Steward Observatory<\/a>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/theketelsens.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">read about his various adventures at his personal blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posted below is Dean&#8217;s latest time-lapse video of the LBT opening for a night of observing.  I suspect he will be posting something similar of Keck in the near future.  We toured the telescopes today and he had a chance to setup the camera while the guys swung the &#8216;scope around a bit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4vGHbydNAMc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have visited the LBT, many years ago before it was completed.  Even without the dual 8.4 meter primary mirrors it was an impressive facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine, Dean Ketelsen is visiting the island with his wonderful wife, Melinda and a few family members. Dean grinds big glass for a living, as in 8.4m telescope mirrors for Steward Observatory. You can read about his various adventures at his personal blog. Posted below is Dean&#8217;s latest time-lapse video of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=5867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Large Binocular Telescope&#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":[7],"tags":[2108,650,649,651],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867"}],"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=5867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}