{"id":101,"date":"2010-10-29T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/11\/01\/new-telescope-gets-new-home\/"},"modified":"2010-11-05T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:39:43","slug":"new-telescope-gets-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/10\/29\/new-telescope-gets-new-home\/","title":{"rendered":"New Telescope gets New Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2009\/12\/p1030389.JPG\" title=\"p1030389.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/files\/2009\/12\/p1030389.JPG\" alt=\"p1030389.JPG\" width=\"480\" align=\"top\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Physics Department recently completed the installation of the new Martha Carpenter Observatory on the roof of Gottwald Science Center.  The observatory now houses our new 14&#8243; Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain reflecting telescope.  All University of Richmond physics majors will have access to the new telescope.\u00a0 Several students will also be working with professor <a href=\"http:\/\/physics.richmond.edu\/faculty\/Nebel_Henry.html\" title=\"Henry Nebel\">Henry Nebel<\/a>, pictured above, on various research projects involving the telescope, including tracking the moons of Jupiter and recording daily fluctuations in variable stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Physics Department recently completed the installation of the new Martha Carpenter Observatory on the roof of Gottwald Science Center. The observatory now houses our new 14&#8243; Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain reflecting telescope. All University of Richmond physics majors will have access to the new telescope.\u00a0 Several students will also be working with professor Henry Nebel, pictured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/2010\/10\/29\/new-telescope-gets-new-home\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Telescope gets New Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}